usb hd

[john s.]

aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
>>   I plugged in an old hard drive, via usb. I was able to format the
>> drive (fat32, don't ask)- that's as far as I can go with it though... I
>> click on the icon and I'm told I don't have enough privilege to mount
>> the drive. Doh! Another weird thing I've noticed- not sure if it
>> matters. I had to set jumpers at cable select, instead of as master,
>> just so the crazy thing can even been 'seen' by FC. I'm using FC5, but
>> plan on using the set up with 6 (my laptop) and Windows.
>>     
>
> Some more information about your machine might help.  Like, is this SATA
> OR IDE?  Are you logged in as root?  Does the partition appear if you do
> an fdisk -l?
>
> I can understand you not being able to set the drive as master if it is
> the only drive on the channel.  Some drives require a 2nd drive on the
> channel to be master.  Otherwise you can just not have any jumper at all
> and it will default to master (similar but not the same as cable select).
>
>
>   
  It looks like the drive is bad; I plugged it into a Win box, and I 
still couldn't access it.