How do I mount my empeg drive on a debian box? I figured this would be a faster way of getting 60GB of tunes off of it, but it's not. Got it in a usb enclosure (with both plugs plugged in). Fdisk looks like it's partitioned normally.

fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd4 ext2 defaults 1 2

mount reports:
mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device

Any ideas why? I'm not sure how much longer I can work on this and still be saving myself time from letting jemplode do its thing.

Matthew

You don't really need to put anything in fstab. Just run mount directly. Something like: "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd4".

That said, I don't know why mount would complain about a device that's not listed in your fstab. Are you sure you didn't typo something somewhere?

Same thing though,
"mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/usbhd4 -t ext2"
gives the same
"mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device"

Hmm. just noticed fdisk is reporting 80GB, which is the size of the last drive I had hooked up. Going to do the unthinkable and reboot.

Matthew

Worked fine on reboot. The 80GB drive it was reporting died while attached to the next computer I had hooked it up to. Perhaps it had been on it's way out. (currently: click-CLICK-pause-click-CLICK-pause-click-CLICK...)

Of course, the server is USB 1.1. Burning the knoppix CD and switching to the laptop. Adding USB/firewire PCI card to the mental shopping list.

Matthew

Knoppix worked perfectly, found them at boot and made entries under /mnt. Mounted the entires, and am currently rsyncing them over at slow but acceptable rate. I really wish there was an easy way to know where the bottleneck actually is at this point. It's going at about 1mb per seccond, which is slower than the drive should be able to handle, and slower than the USB2.0 bus, slower than the gigabit ethernet and hopefully slower than the ide raid 5 array with three disks.

Matthew

Possibly related to the error Mark reported about not long ago about Knoppix having a typo in the USB driver or something.

Edit: In this post

Stig

Oooh good point. modprobe ehci-hcd seemed to speed things up, the last gigabyte went by at a clip of 1.4mb/sec. It seems it was getting around .8mb/sec before. An improvement, but nothing earth shattering.

It has gotten the server they're being transfered to up to a load average of around 6 and has the cpu bouncing back and forth between 10-90% system. Looks like it's the raid array that needs work at this point.

Matthew