On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:11 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > 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 :-). I found a USB floppy drive at a yard sale... yeah I know... kill me now. I plugged it in, but it's not coming up although lsusb shows it. The drive whirrs and the head steps, I can hear it doing so. But nothing pops up to ask what to do with it nor is there any entry in /media for it. Damn thing sounds like it's formatting the disk!! Weird. lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:4c11 Hewlett-Packard Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a90:f350 Candy Technology Co., Ltd Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Candy Tech, who would have figured. Anyone know of this "device" ? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
