No luck yet, I'm afraid - Phil
Do you happen to have anything in your /dev directory for sda?
Yes, in /dev/disk, I have sda1, sda2, sda3, sda5, sda6, sda7 and sdb.
You will know your successful when you cycle the power on and the SuSE hardware detection window pops up.
Unfortunately, no hardware detection popped up. I got the following in /var/log/messages: Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: new device found, idVendor=14cd, idProduct=6600 Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=2 Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: Product: USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: Manufacturer: Super Top Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: SerialNumber: ?????????? Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb-storage: device found at 2 Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Jun 16 19:52:53 inspiron kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: Vendor: Hitachi Model: HTS541210H9AT00 Rev: 0 0 Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: SCSI device sdb: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: SCSI device sdb: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 Jun 16 19:52:54 inspiron kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: sdb:<6>sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10070000 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10070000 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10070000 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: unable to read partition table Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10070000 Jun 16 19:52:55 inspiron kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 195371392 Using yast partitioner, it detected /dev/evms/sdb. Trying to partition it gives me the following error: ERROR Failure occured during the followng action: Mouting /dev/evms/sdb to /mnt/usb System error code was: -3003 mount-t auto /dev/evms/sdb to /mnt/usb: mount: /dev/evms/sdb: can't read superblock. For this, I got the following in /var/log/messages: Jun 16 20:35:03 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10070000 Jun 16 20:35:03 inspiron kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Jun 16 20:35:03 inspiron kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10070000 Jun 16 20:35:03 inspiron kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 195371504 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org