recognizing an external hard drive in FC4

[Tim]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 22:47 +0000, Chris Norman wrote:
> I will be needing to connect an external hard disk via USB to drag
> some stuff of it some time in the near future. The disk gets
> recognized just fine under windows, but how can I get it to go under
> FC4? I'm not sure of the manufacturer or any of that, I just know it's
> USB (the disk isn't mine), where will it be in /dev?

You can read the tail-end of the /var/log/messages file, moments after
plugging it in, and see what the system says about finding it.  You
could possibly also use dmesg for the same sort of thing.

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