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On 25/09/12 17:49, bad apple wrote:
On 25/09/12 17:06, Peter M Le Mare wrote:This is only too true but being one who finds it difficult to follow the instructions of what to put in a terminal when something actually goes wrong it has it's problems - and unless you know some one who really understands Linux, close by to help it is very difficult. I have time and time again tried to install a driver for my Brother DCP-315CN and keep failing so I can still only use it as a photocopier. Now I have a new problem which seems to have no answer. My wife (Thai) brought back a Buffalo HDD HD-PNTU3 with lots of music and small videos on it. The box and details on line say it can be used with windows or mac with some software called drive navigator. Can anyone out there tell me if it can be used or accessed by Linux (Ubunto 12.10 with Gnome desktop)??Well, at the risk of providing terminal instructions: Plug it in first - it's going to be FAT32 presumably and do: dmesg | grep Attached It will be the last device listed, probably something like: [ 1.397989] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Your device will probably be different, perhaps sdb, sdc, sdd, etc, depending on how many disks you have on your system. Prepare a mount point: sudo mkdir -p /mnt/buffalo Mount the disk: sudo mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/buffalo X here is the letter you got from the dmesg above - something like sdb1, sdc1, depending on your system. Providing there are no errors: nautilus /mnt/buffalo & To be honest, as someone else said, it should really just be automounted by gnome and be readily available with no extra work. If in doubt, "sudo apt-get install gparted && sudo gparted" to have an easy graphical look at your attached disks, or "sudo fdisk -l" for the more technically inclined. Regards
This is what I got-
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sd14:0:0:0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I am not sure I understand this. I am not sure I put the sdx1 number
correctly as my number is a lot different to your example. I put
sd14:0:0:0 the number after the entry.
How do I enter /sbin/mount.?buffalo? helper program? Do I put sudo or something first? do actually write helper programme? what is syslog how do write the dmesg | ?tail? or so?
A long time ago I used to use DOS before windows. I managed that OK? Sorry to sound so stupid.
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