I have two machines running kubuntu -- one a G3 iBook, the other an
Athlon box cobbled together from bits. And I've found a subtle
difference in the behaviour of UDEV, HAL or KDED when I connect my
firewire harddrive.
On the PC it shows up as a removable device, but on the Mac it is a
harddisk. Both machines show it as a removable device when I use its USB
connector. This is actually rather irritating as setting KDE to show
icons for unmounted hard disks on a Mac leads to a VERY cluttered
desktop as there are lots (about 12-16) of small Mac-specific partitions
that Linux doesn't need to mount. Since the iBook only has USB 1.1
and the disk needs a power supply to work on USB, using it on USB for
normal purposes is not an option.
Is there a configuration option somewhere to say how FireWire disks
should be interpreted?
TIA
James
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