On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:04 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > G'day again, It must be my day for questions. This more for filling in > the blanks than problem solving. > > I'm thinking of getting a Maxtor OneTouch IV 250GB external drive, so I > googled other peoples experiences. On 2 sites (below) I found similar > explanations of the steps to get one working under Linux. Both say to > reboot between fdisk and mkfs. Why? > > 1/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hnarayan/maxtor-harddrive-linux.html > 2/ http://www.totalpenguin.com/content/view/25/40/ > > > -- > Regards > Simon > Hello Beats me I have a 500GB and I didnt. LostSon
