On Thu, 24 May 2007 05:33:38 -0700
"Victor Churchill" <victor@???> wrote:
> No, this one has its own external supply from a mains power brick..
> Does mean that it's not very 'portable', but no demand on the host
> system.
FWIW I just switched mine one, it is powered from a brick like yours
and left connected most of the time but powered off.
dmesg sees it like this:
usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 3-6: configuration #2 chosen from 1 choice
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: WDC WD45 Model: 0AA-00BAA0 Rev: 10.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sde: 87930864 512-byte hdwr sectors (45021 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 2a 00 00 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sde: 87930864 512-byte hdwr sectors (45021 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 2a 00 00 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
sde: sde1
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
and mount /dev/sda1 -t ext2 /mnt lets me see what is on it
but of course I _am_ using proper Debian :-)
--
John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package
