Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday 2008-09-28 at 08:08 -0400, James Knott wrote:
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.
Maybe you mean those with an ethernet plug and a cpu, supporting samba and sometimes some functions requiring windows. Some can be directly connected to Internet, too. They may have also an USB plug (client and/or server).
I also read of an Iomega or Seagate (not sure which) disk that when it went to sleep was not awake-able from Linux, only from windows, because it returned to life in USB version 1, ie, lower speed. It was commented here some months ago.
That is true.....Seagate. I have one, but use it most of the time connected as ESATA...use only as a backup appliance. I think the problem is not with the drive but with Linux. There was rumor that this was going to be fixed, but whether it was or not, I don't know. Fred -- "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." --Ronald Reagan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org