On 2002.10.24 Brent Hasty wrote:
>I have made several unsucessful attempts at setting up an external 30 gig usb 
>ide hard drive.  When using drakconf it is recognized, and I am cautioned;
>
[...]
>
>I have tried smaller partions, and differing file systems, to no avail.
>Does anyone have tips on setting up an external usb drive?
>

Can you try the good-ol' way ?

Post results of:

fdisk -l /dev/sdc

and:

sfdisk -d /dev/sdc > sdc.out
sfdisk /dev/sdc < sdc.out
cat sdc.out

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