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Old 01-07-2006
listing directories of an external hard drive
How do I do it? I have a mac and a pc and am having a time cd-ing to the external drive.
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Old 01-09-2006
really??
No one???????
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Old 01-09-2006
Please review the rules - in particular:

(4) Do not 'bump up' questions if they are not answered promptly
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If somebody can offer assistance, they will...

I think you need to be more specific about the problems that you're having - is this an external USB hard disk, which Operating System are you using (uname -a), does it get automatically mounted when you connect it (post output of mount command without options), etc, etc. We need a lot more information in order to assist.

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