On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:04 +0100, Simon Andrews wrote: > > just plug it in ... it will work fine > > Just to let you know that this isn't always the case: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155536 Fortunately the Matrox 500GB USB drive I got seems to work fine. Reformatted it from NTFS to ext3 and now have a cron job rsyncing gobs of stuff to it every night. The one thing that confused me a little was that nothing shows up in the output from "lsusb", but /dev/sdc certainly shows up, so it must be working. I just put down lsusb to another linux mystery :-).