USB hard drive

[Jim Douglas]

>From: "Jacques B." <jjrboucher at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: mhw at wittsend.com,"For users of Fedora Core releases" 
><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: USB hard drive
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:04:29 -0400
>
><snip>
> > > >Can you list what happens when you plug the hard drive in whilst 
>Linux
> > > >is booted?
> > > >
> > > >Can you try the hard drive in another system (a Windows one would 
>help
> > > >with debugging)?
> > > >
> > > > > The USB hard drive is FAT32, could that be an issue?
> > > >
>Small world, I had the same issue today (not a FC system, but a Linux
>system so quite likely similar reasons).  When I had a Maxtor 40 gig
>in the USB 2.0 enclosure  my laptop with a bootable Linux CD could see
>that drive.  But when I put in a Western Digital 40 gig drive it
>couldn't see that drive properly (some errors in dmesg waiting for
>drive to be ready, and some other such message).  I know the drive is
>valid because I had viewed it under a Windows system (doing a forensic
>acquisition) and was using a Linux box to re-hash the drive for
>validation.  I wonder if the problem might be with certain brand
>drives working properly with Linux while in a USB enclosure?
>
>Jacques B.
>
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I thought it was the brand and returned an Accudata for an Iomega...didn't 
help.

Jim