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[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 20:36, James Knott wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:
> > > Janus wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 03 November 2007 23:54, James Knott wrote:
> > > > > Plug it in.  Then open Yast Partitioner.  You should see the drive.
> > > > > Format it and specify the desired mount point.
> > > >
> > > > I go YaST -> System -> Partitioner
> > > > - and I only see /dev/hda - no external drive.
> > >
> > > I just turned on my external 160 GB drive and it shows up in Partitioner
> > > as /dev/sdc.  Do you see anything new, when you plug in that drive?
> >
> > James, the OP did state that he is using SuSE 10.0, and you are using
> > 10.3. The point here is, does 10.0 have the same ability to recognise
> > USB drives? If I recall correctly, weren't there some hassles in this
> > area with SuSE prior to (?)10.2?
>
> I don't recall and I don't have any 10.0 systems running.

I didn't catch that.

Yes, 10.0 was buggy as all getup when it came to USB external drives and USB 
thumb drives. 

I don't know if patches ever made it into that distro version, but I recall 
very serious issues with speed in transferring files when I went from 9.3 to 
10.0.  

IIRC, the whole underbelly of USB was rewritten from the 9.x days and 
10.0 "missed the boat."  I remember distinctly feeling very pleased with 10.1 
and 10.2 in terms of performance with USB drives.
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