On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:13:26AM -0700, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008 8:59 AM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/16/2008 09:19 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > > | These external HD's that are out there, like a seagate 250G I saw at > > | Staples, can they work just fine with Fedora 8 and up? I got one of these for Christmas, and with a Fedora 8 updated kernel released that week, yes, it "just worked". > In addition to that good advice, check out the thread I started here > with the subject "USB external hard drive disconnecting". I always > figured external drives would just work, but apparently some models > are programmed to go to sleep. This has been causing me some grief. > You can google for "Seagate USB external drive linux" to read about > some other troubles with that particular brand. There are solutions, > but it's been more of a hassle than I expected. Mine is a Cavalry 500 > GB, by the way. Removable external disks are now handled generically in the kernel. The kernel will issue a start-disk command when it tries to do I/O to it if it sees that the device has gone to sleep in the meantime. The Fedora 8 kernel from around Christmas implemented this feature, so I didn't have to do anything special to solve this. -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
