Re: External USB Hard-Drive on Linux

__/ [ Geoffrey Clements ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 10:38 \__


"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 09:33 \__

__/ [ Geoffrey Clements ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:57 \__

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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__/ [ Dave {Reply Address in.Sig} ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 06:50
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
I am using SuSE 9.3 and I intend to buy an external USB hard-drive
later this
morning. Will it be a simple case of plug-and-play? As in plug
hard-drive
and an icon will show up in the Desktop?

By default it will probably recognise the drive. If the worst happens,
go look at /var/log/messages (as root) and see what it installed as,
then mount it manually. I've never tride 9.3 but I know that more
recent
distros tend to manage to automount removeable media more readily.


Hello Roy, I don't know anything about SUSE but I've seen your posts
over
on
comp.windows.x.kde so I assume you're a kde user. I use kde 3.4.x and
have no trouble with removable media which looks like a hard drive
however
you need the following:
1. A recent kernel, 2.6.11 seems to be the oldest you can use.
2. hal needs to be installed and hald running.
3. dbus installed and running.
4. pmount installed if you want normal users to mount the drive by
clicking on its desktop icon.
5. ivman installed and setup if you automounting.

I have 1 to 4 above and never need to touch /etc/fstab. I'm no expert
on
this but I hope it's useful to you.


Thanks, Geoff (and others). I have just returned with a 300GB beast. I
told
the to salesman it's for a Linux box and he replied "it should be fine".
Let's see how it goes...

Slap me dead! I was up for a challenge, but the bloody drive just showed
up
under "Computer" as soon as I had plugged it in. Filesystem and all: no
problem!


Dammit! No juicy problem to solve :-( What on earth is going on with Linux,
it's getting far too easy ;-)

BTW what did you get, I'm thinking of getting one myself.

I was set to go with a Western Digital offer, which included housing and a
250GB drive. It took me under 5 minutes to make this decision although
Maplin had a decent choice in store. There was a special offer on the WD
unit, so it was going for GBP 120, down from ~160 (or so they would have
you believe). It was no longer in stock sadly.

I ended up with the Seagate, which was also on display at the front win-
dow. Nice housing, 300GB, 7200 RPM, good packaging with both European and
British connectors, software CD for backup (Windows and maybe also OS X, I
imagine). Price was 140 pounds, but I get a 5% discount for being a stu-
dent.

I haven't had a a chance to explore what else is contained in the box. My
aim was to set this up as quickly as possible (unpacking and connecting
taking 10 times as much as configuring, namely plug in, then dou-
ble-click). This was the same case when I got my SuSE box. Physical pack-
aging (as in boxing) was the only hindrance, which I found YaSTastic.
*smile*

300 gigs. More than I need, but beats the hell out of GDrive!

Best wishes and thanks again,

Roy
.

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