hardy, and usb drives, does anyone have one that works?

[Karl Larsen]

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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