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How to install and format new firewire hard drive
Here's a good older, but still worthwhile tutorial on setting up a new firewire hard drive.
Step one: install drive into firewire enclosure, and plugin to system. Or if it's an all in one firewire external unit, plugin to system. It may or may not be necessary to reboot the first time, I think it is, but I'm not sure. If in doubt, run this command: :: Code :: $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
# this will give an output like this Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST380817AS Rev: 3.42 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160827AS Rev: 3.42 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: B200R0 Rev: Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 04 If your new drive is listed, you can proceed to the next step. If it isn't, reboot, and it should be listed, if the firewire unit is plugged in and powered up. Now you can use the partitioning tool of your choice, fdisk, cfdisk, parted, or qtparted/gparted to create your partition. After that, you can use mkfs to create a new file system. Since I am going to use this as an external backup drive, I decided to format it with ext3 [that takes advantage of the available windows 2000/xp ext2 driver, so windows can also read the external drive if necessary. :: Code :: # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdd1
mke2fs 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 16777216 inodes, 33553760 blocks 1677688 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 1024 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. Now it's ready to mount after adding an entry in /etc/fstab :: Code :: /dev/sdd /var/bu auto noauto,users 0 0change /dev/sdd to fit with your current system, of course. then, to use it, I ran: :: Code :: mount /dev/sdd1 /var/buand the new drive is available and ready to go. [note: I discoverd that on older firewire external drive enclosures their ide controller may not support > 137 gigabyte drives. If that's the case, you either have to replace the unit, or research to find if there are any workarounds. My suspicion is that there aren't. Back to top |
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