On Sunday 28 September 2008 14:08:08 James Knott wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/09/27 23:28 (GMT-0400) Martin Nopola composed:
I need help with buying an external HD. I bought an Iomega eGo external 160 GB USB hard drive but it is not recognized by my os 11.0 linux only box.
What does "not recognized" mean? Hard drives are useless before you partition them and install filesystems on the partition(s). Can't parted, fdisk or cfdisk find it? What does 'lsusb' show?
There are some of those external drives that require Windows to work or deliver full funtion. I don't recall the details though.
I got a Zappa for 80 euros from my local sell everything including washing machines and cucumbers in a green net bag supermarket sort of store. I can't afford raid and it works fine. Oh, I formatted it ext3 using Yast. HTH L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org