<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 07/17/2009 09:25 AM, David Moran wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:e7e89ca40907170925y513d02e2h4bc5227d204109e4@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Tim<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au"><ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with USB ports work with Fedora pain free? I've heard tales of some drive enclosures that go asleep on you, but can't recall if it were this range of models, and there's some of these on sale locally for a reasonable price. I had some unidentifiable brand of hard drive enclosure with a Seagate drive in it that died on me some time ago (the drive gets multiplying read errors). And I want to find a decent replacement, without a silly price, or a crappy fan that's going to make annoying noises or seize up. You try to be diligent, doing your backups to an external drive, then the backup drive is the thing to go west! :-\ Thank goodness I have the original files to back up the backup... And, yes, the drive got treated with kid gloves, and I don't expect hard drives to be treated any other way. Now I'm wondering what can be trusted as a medium for removable backups. I much prefer the notion of something like a drive that carries uncompressed copies of files, for direct access to a backup. Rather than serial access tapes, or terribly slow multi-DVD collections. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I've been using a WD Elements 1TB drive on my F10 32bit and F11 64bit for some time now. Works without a hitch on either one. Just plug and play. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> One more data point. When I try to format the drive ext3 as you suggest, I keep getting this error message: Error creating filesystem org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks.Error.Failed: Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot mount /dev/sdc5 at /var/run/DeviceKit-disks/job-mkfs-IrRLV9: Invalid argument Any suggestions? <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- ---------------------------------------------------------------- cheers, Paul - VA7NT - email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:va7nt@telus.net">va7nt@telus.net</a> "Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad." “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” - Thomas Mann "That state which separates it's warriors from it's scholars will have it's thinking done by cowards and fighting done by fools" - Thucydides - The Pelopenisia "The Malice of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous." - Churchill </pre> </body> </html>