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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org