[ale] WD 120 GB USB drive

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sun October 7 2007 7:44 pm, mike barnes wrote:
> I just installed opensuse 10.3 and have been fairly impressed with the ease
> of installation so far. However, I am unable to get my wife's Western
> Digital USB drive to be recognized. Any help would be appreciated since
> this is the last item on my list to convince the wife that LINUX is as good
> if not better than windows.
>
> I am able to get the system to recognize USB flash drives so I think that
> the auto mounter is working (not sure what the /etc/fstab entry should be
> though)

ack, I used to have an entry ( when I ran SUSE 10.2) but it disappeared when i 
switched to Debian..
check out this page for tips:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/allcam/usb_storage_linux_guide.html

I remember I set mine to no fsck ( changed the 2nd ZERO to a ONE I think?) so 
if I didn't have it plugged in it wouldn't mess up my boot..


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Paul Cartwright
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