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On 25/09/12 17:06, Peter M Le Mare wrote: > > This is only too true but being one who finds it difficult to follow > the instructions of what to put in a terminal when something actually > goes wrong it has it's problems - and unless you know some one who > really understands Linux, close by to help it is very difficult. > I have time and time again tried to install a driver for my Brother > DCP-315CN and keep failing so I can still only use it as a photocopier. > Now I have a new problem which seems to have no answer. My wife (Thai) > brought back a Buffalo HDD HD-PNTU3 with lots of music and small > videos on it. The box and details on line say it can be used with > windows or mac with some software called drive navigator. Can anyone > out there tell me if it can be used or accessed by Linux (Ubunto 12.10 > with Gnome desktop)?? > Well, at the risk of providing terminal instructions: Plug it in first - it's going to be FAT32 presumably and do: dmesg | grep Attached It will be the last device listed, probably something like: [ 1.397989] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Your device will probably be different, perhaps sdb, sdc, sdd, etc, depending on how many disks you have on your system. Prepare a mount point: sudo mkdir -p /mnt/buffalo Mount the disk: sudo mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/buffalo X here is the letter you got from the dmesg above - something like sdb1, sdc1, depending on your system. Providing there are no errors: nautilus /mnt/buffalo & To be honest, as someone else said, it should really just be automounted by gnome and be readily available with no extra work. If in doubt, "sudo apt-get install gparted && sudo gparted" to have an easy graphical look at your attached disks, or "sudo fdisk -l" for the more technically inclined. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq