behalf of; partha chowdhury [kira.laucas at gmail.com] >i have another 80G external samsung drive from 2 years and it works >without problem . JohnStanley Writes: You could very well be just having an issue wich involves the drive firware not being compatable with the operatting system since the other one does work. As a side note I have a USB Drive and a Thumb drive that will work in windows but not linux. What I did was found one brand and model that worked and bought extra ones for the linux systems.