External HDD + Fedora Core 3

[J_K9]

Hi,

I have a LaCie Mobile External Hard Drive and nothing happens when I plug it into my Fedora Core 3 laptop. I have already asked around on Linux Questions but even with all the replies I got, I still couldn't fix it. So, I thought I would ask here! Here is the reslut of my "fdisk -l" WITH the External HD plugged in:

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device         Boot   Start          End       Blocks            Id      System

/dev/hda1                1        951      479272+       82      Linux swap
/dev/hda2      *       952       23001     11113200     83      Linux
/dev/hda3            23002      36727     6917904       83      Linux
/dev/hda4            36728      38760     1024632        5       Extended
/dev/hda5            36728      38759     1024096+    82       Linux swap

Sorry about the formatting, but I had to copy it out because my FC3 laptop isn't on my home network yet and I can't use my external HD yet! Oh, btw I am dualbooting SUSE 9.1 and FC3 and accidentally created 2 swaps (lol).

Do you have any ideas? Thanks in advance,

J_K9

[kr5kernel]

run a dmesg or tail /var/log/messages after you plug in the drive, does it give any errors?

[J_K9]

Here is the dmesg (relevant parts only):

usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver

uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 00001800
SELinux: initialized (dev usbdevfs, type usbdevfs), uses genfs_contexts
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

I think it doesn't work though because I have USB 1.1 drives, and according to this site LaCie Mobile HD's don't tend to get as much power as they need from USB 1.1, only from 2.0. I might have to buy a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card for my laptop and that might work (you can probably tell that I've been speaking to LQ people ). Thanks for your help though.

J_K9 --