I got a new Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 160 GB USB HDD.
Like many other computer peripherals, accessories this was labeled to be compatible with Windows and Macintosh, as well (Wow!!). So, what does a Linux guy do? *Evil Grin*.
Simple, I plug it in.
The light on the HDD starts blinking and I see the following error dialog: (Wow, almost perfect)
As the messages show, the HDD is pre-formatted with NTFS. Now there are two ways out:
- Either you can use the 'mount' command using the switches, flags as suggested above (it works fine).
- You can go ahead and format your HDD. For eg. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 will create a ext3 partition on the HDD
After doing any of the above steps, you can use your HDD just like any other storage device.
Perhaps even the HDD manufacturer knows that their product will work invariably on Linux and hence they do not mention it. 
