FC6 portable hard drive -

[Bob Goodwin - W2BOD]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
>   
>> My daughter has a Samsung portable hard drive that she handed me to copy
>> the F7-DVD-iso file to so that she can burn the DVD on her Mac.
>>
>> It plugs in to the usb port and I figured I would see it when I did
>> lsusb, but no, it's not there.  So I have found yet another obstacle to
>> installing F7!
>>
>> Should I expect Fedora Core 6 to find that drive when I plug it in? 
>> What do I do next?  Or is it just another gadget that won't work in Linux?
>>
>> Bob Goodwin
>>
>>     
> What do you mean by "it's not there"? If it is not there at all,
> even by ID numbers, then I would check the USB connection. Even if
> Linux does not support the device, it will still show up on lsusb if
> it is properly connected. I am not sure what happens if the device
> draws more power then is available at the port it plugs in to - but
> I would still expect something listed there.
>
> I would expect just about any USB storage device to work. The worst
> I would expect is to have to manually mount it.
>
> Mikkel
>   
The light is on and I can feel that there is something spinning when I 
switch it on.  Is it getting sufficient power?  I don't know, but she 
takes ti to school and uses it routinely this way.  I don't know what 
file system it uses, hoped I would be able to tell once the computer 
recognized it?

This is what I see with it plugged in and lit:
lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:0701 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300c/5370c
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 12c8:1f03 
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0870 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express

Bob Goodwin