civileme wrote:
>
> Umm it may not work at all under linux. Does it have a special windows
> driver?
In MS windows98 it needs one and, funny enough, in W2k on the laptop
while W2k
on the desktop PC mounts it without the need of a special driver.
>
> The way to set it up for mounting is to
>
> a) use the linux instruction mknod to set up a device if one is not already
> set up.
>
> b) enter the information about the drive, mount point(s), filesystem used,
> mount options, and 0 0 in one or more lines of /etc/fstab
>
> Your friends are the console comands
>
> man mknod
> man fstab
> man mount
I'll certainly try it. I have tried everything but the mknod command.
Maybe that's
what's missing.
>
> But, at this early stage of USB standards and USB support, all of your work,
> no matter how correctly done, may come to naught. First contact the drive
> folks at website or by email or phone and ask if it does work under linux.
I found a letter on the linux-usb site from someone who succeeded with
exactly the
values that are found in the
/usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual-devs.h
/Serafim
