Accessing external IDE drive via USB2 with IDE - USB adaptor cable.

[Mark Halegua]

On Sunday 21 September 2008 02:19:24 pm Nils Kassube wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I need to access the data on an IDE hard drive. I have connected the
> > drive to power and to the computer via an IDE - USB adaptor cable,
> > however I do not see how I can mount this disk. My internal hard disk
> > is sda, with the fileystem on sda2 and /home on sda4. There are no
> > other hard disks connected to the machine. Here is what I get:
> >
> > hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ tail /var/log/messages
> >
> > Sep 21 20:31:55 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18348.727118] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]
>
> Obviously the disk is at "/dev/sdb" but there doesn't seem to be a
> partition known to the kernel. What is the output of
>
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> in a terminal?
>

Have you tried mounting the drive?  first create a mount point (like /mnt/usb) 
then:
	mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb

and see what that gets you.

Mark