Ionut Vancea wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:22 AM, John E. Perry wrote:

...

I have a 500G Seagate PATA hard drive connected to my hp dv6000 laptop via a pata-usb interface. I can't see it at all via konqueror. It works fine under xp.

The only way I can see anything under suse is to use lsusb. This gives:

there is nothing written in:

tail -f /var/log/messages

when you plug in, your external hdd?

Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 27 Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb-storage: device found at 27 Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338 Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5 Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: JMicron Nov 13 20:58:37 embelex kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 222291134328 Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST350063 0A F PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00 Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00 Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sdb: unknown partition table Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Ok, so it doesn't recognize the partition table? Is that the problem or a symptom? And why did it work under xp? Thanks, Ionut, very much for the help. I can't think why I didn't think to do this myself. I'll be digging for disk setup programs while hoping for more help. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org