USB, Toshiba

[William Muriithi]

Koziol

On 24 January 2011 11:16, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I started the subject. Let me hence have a few words to conclude.
>
> I was not able to use the drive initially. It was not listed by /sbin/lsusb
> after connected to. There was no ANY message in dmesg.
>
> My coworker using Windows (we have however in our small group at university
> a strong tendency to use Linux rather) did try to use it from Windows - no
> success. And after that she did that:
>
> Turn off computer. Connect the drive by USB cable. Turn on the USB drive.
> Turn on the computer.
>
> That way she was able to see the content of the USB drive.

Thanks for the update.
>
> After this, I did the same on Linux. NTFS! Oh, well... So I did ext2
> partitioning and mkfs.
>
You could have used ntfs-3g module.  It has worked fine for me.  That
way, you can share the drive with workmates using Windows.
> Now things are ok.
>
> zb.
>
>
William
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