On Monday 02 September 2002 07:51 pm, john czarnuszewicz wrote: > I just got an external USB HD (2.5 inch 10 gig IBM so no additional > power needed). > > Box said it would run under Windows, it does. Nothing was said about > LINUX. > > Will it work (under Mandrake 8.2)? Will I need extra drivers? Will I > have to mount the device? > > Thanks in advance for any help. I am afraid to plug it in and risk > damage.
I would try to treat it like a USB zip drive, and see if that works. insmod usbcore insmod usb-uhci insmod usb-storage then try to mount it as a scsi drive, you could do a cdrecord --scanbus to see if it was recognized. -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment"
