On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 19:05 +0200, ronald wrote: > >>> 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 :-). > take a look at > http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/ > http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/manufacturer/manufacturer_09.html > http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi?action=thispage&thispage=vendors_S.shtml&order_id=!ORDERID! Thanx for the pointers! I got it to work using /dev/sdb, but it really hates vfat or msdos formats, for some reason. I finally got it formatting ext2 and will try ext3 as was mentioned above. Beats me what this thing doesn't like the M$ formats, but you know what?? It's perfectly OK with me. <cackles hugely> Ric Listening to Sly & The Family Stone, "Stand"... remember those days? <sigh> my poor hippies sold out for stock options and 401K's. -- ================================================ 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 ================================================
