FC4 and external hard drive (USB)

[Simon Andrews]

J.Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am considering purchasing a USB hard drive to use with a FC4 system. 
> I am currently considering one of the Lacie 80 GB models, and was 
> wondering if anyone had any comments on how well supported these types 
> of devices are with FC4?

I'd avoid the LaCie if I were you.  We've got a couple of them here and 
although I can get them to work on an old system running a 2.4 kernel 
I've had no joy with any of the recent Fedora releases.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155536 for details.

Simon.