On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 08:06 -0400, James Knott wrote:
I don't recall the details, but there are some external drives that are optimized for Windows and cause problems for Linux. It's best to stay away from those. The safest bet is to buy separate drives and cases. That way you'll avoid this nonsense.
At work i've got two drives: Bus 005 Device 008: ID 1058:1001 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. External Hard Disk Bus 005 Device 007: ID 0930:0b03 Toshiba Corp. The Toshiba (300GB) just worked out-of-the-box, The WD was not recognized at all on systems older then 10.3. At home i ran into trouble with an LaCie ethernet disk Although it has an USB-2.0 interface, you can not use it under linux, though it works under XP. Thankfully the box has an Gb ethernet interface and can works as an smb-server. Regretfully this box can not be reached with neither nfs nor ssh. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org