[olug] external hard drive

[A-Wal]

I'm not sure if this helps, but I also have an external  USB hard drive, 
and Fedora Core 4 will automatically mount it when I plug it in just 
like a flash drive.  I don't know any details on how it does it though.  
However, I do know that it doesn't use the standard HD device when it 
mounts it.   Perhaps a USB device?  The only difference I can see is 
that mine is formated with a Linux ext3 system instead of ntfs.  So, you 
may need to load the ntfs libraries to make it work.

Andrew Ericson wrote:

>I have a maxtor external hard drive that I would like to use as a backup for 
>my Suse Linux system. I can't get Suse  to recognize the drive. I am using a 
>usb port that works with a flash drive so it seems that the port is good. I    
>am able to partition the hard drive using Windows so the drive seems ok. Any 
>suggestions?
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