Where can I find a driver for a Prestige Desktop Hard Drive for use on Linux (OpenSUSE 11.3)?
Where should I look, in general, for drivers for this OS?
Where can I find a driver for a Prestige Desktop Hard Drive for use on Linux (OpenSUSE 11.3)?
Where should I look, in general, for drivers for this OS?
It’s just a USB drive right?
Should just work
What does fdisk -l show
Or in Yast - Partitioner: Does it show in there?
Drivers are part of the kernel and in general, you don’t load new drivers, such as is done in Windows. It is possible to update the kernel, so as to add new hardware support and ever so often, there is a patch or new kernel module that can be loaded to add new support, but this is not all that common.
The Prestige Desktop Hard Drive is a USB hard drive? Normally, when you plug in a USB drive (After openSUSE has started) you should get a notification in the icon tray of its attachment, where you will have an opportunity to open up the drive contents using a file manager. If you intend or wish to use it all of the time in openSUSE (you are NOT going to disconnect it while using openSUSE), you can add the drive to your fstab file to be mounted all of the time in openSUSE. By mounted, we mean it will appear as part of the unified folder system such that one of the folders in your tree represents the mounted external drive which can be browsed at all times with one of the installed KDE File Managers.
To Perform such a permanent mounting, leave the USB drive connected and restart your computer, then you can open YaST / System / Partitioner and Select the Yes Button to enter the program. On the “Available Storage on YourPCName” window, you should see an entry for your new hard drive. It might say /dev/sdb1 for instance. Right click on the new drive and pick Edit Partition. The option to format the drive is NOT selected and leave it that way but to select a mounting point you must pick a folder name for it to be mounted, like /Software or /Data for instance. You can not create an NTFS Windows compatible partition using openSUSE and would need to use Windows for that, but openSUSE can mount and use an existing NTFS Windows partition just fine. After using the Partitioner to add your new drive, it will have a new entry in your fstab file and will be mounted for you automatically each time you start openSUSE up.
Thank You,
Your suggestion to use YaST and edit the partition (below) worked just fine! I’m copying data at this moment!
Thanks so much!
Happy to be of service JeffreyBacon. Should you have any issues with using the new external USB hard drive, you have some added options on user access to this drive. It defaults to something that works most of the time, but if not, just run the following command, if you use KDE:
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
Now don’t change anything or do a file save yet. Copy and past the information from this file to a message here and we can make suggestions on user permissions, should and only if this be required. Otherwise, you have a great day.
Thank You,