External Hard drive

[Lloyd Hayes]

Yes, this drive works fine under windows XP. It has fat32 file system on it.

When I had FBSD v5.2.1 on this computer several months ago and the 
system recognized it fine. But none of the Linux distros would recognize it.

However, I realized last night that this installation of FBSD is not 
recognizing my 40 GB Buslink hard which all versions of UNIX has 
recognized, including FBSD when I had it on before. I use this drive all 
of the time. FBSD did recognize it during the installation process, but 
I hadn't looked at it since until last night. It also has a Fat32 
format. I'm beginning that SSH is the problem. I did not have it 
installed before.

Lloyd Hayes

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Dick Davies wrote:

>* Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker at yahoo.com> [1056 19:56]:
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>>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.)
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>Drive has died? Can you see it under winders?
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