hardy, and usb drives, does anyone have one that works?
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Mon Jul 14 12:09:56 UTC 2008
Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> Jim Smith wrote:
>>
>>> steve wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have 2 usb hard drives sitting collecting dust because I cannot
>>>> figure out how to read and write to them. 1 is 80 gig seagate, and
>>>> the other is 160 gig fantom. Both HAVE worked on ubuntu in the
>>>> past, from 5.x right up through gutsy.
>>>>
>> Since nothing seems to work here is a sure fire method I had to use
>> once.
>>
>
> [snipped procedure to repartition and format]
>
> Karl,
>
> in the text you quoted, Steve wrote that it worked until Gutsy. There is
> no reason to believe it would help to repartition and format the drives.
> Furthermore it would have been nice to point out that your procedure will
> wipe out any data still on the drives.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
It should be known to anyone that changing the file system will wipe
out any previous data. The first words seem to indicate he has a problem
with Hardy. That could be true but if true it is a big problem with many
components of Hardy.
Karl
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