how to connect to an USB disk drive...

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Aaron Grewell:
> >
> > Can anyone give me some hints. Why it is behaving like
> > this? And how i will be able to connect that disk?  I
> > need to copy lots more files in that drive..I am
> > checking/working on this server remotely because i am
> > too far from the server...
> >
> 
> I suspect your drive is not supported by the kernel you are using.  The kernel 
> may be too old.  That's what 'not claimed by any active driver' usually 
> means, or did when I was trying to get my USB Palm Pilot  working.  The usb 
> storage driver should have handled this device if it was supported, so I 
> suggest a newer kernel.

Check http://www.linux-usb.org/ and http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/index.php
for a list of supported devices.

Kurt
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