External Hard drive

[Lloyd Hayes]

I took the 10 GB hard drive out of a 4 year old laptop, which had died, 
and put it into a generic hard drive box, which connects to my laptop by 
USB cable. It pulls it's power from the computer.

It sometimes worked with Windows 98SE. But it would not work with 
Windows 98SE if I also had my external CD ROM installed. (Installed! Not 
simply connected.) There was a conflict, and Win 98SE would only 
recognized the 1st of these two devices which were installed. It works 
fine with Win XP. So much for Windows.

I had FreeBSD installed earlier this year on this same laptop. Like 
Windows XP, I don't remember it having any problem with these devices.

I have been using this 6 year old laptop as a test bed for the different 
versions of Linux and FreeBSD. (The built-in CD ROM is almost worn out.) 
I just put v5.2.1 back on this laptop. It doesn't want to recognize this 
hard drive. I have checked the 'dmesg' and can't see any mention of this 
connection. I can connect and disconnect this drive while the system is 
running and not get any messages. I have ssh running and it is obviously 
doing something to the drive since I hear the drive clicking on/off. In 
fact, it sounds like a clock. (I am constantly getting messages from ssh.)

Any ideas here?


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Lloyd Hayes

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