Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500) writes:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:33:51 -0500, Christophe Broult > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main partition >> of my year old external Maxtor 5000XT, a 250 GB drive because of some >> read errors on some sectors (see at the end of the message). I called >> the Maxtor support and the only suggestion beside saying that Linux is >> not supported for this drive was to ask me to repartition and reformat >> the drive. Their opinion is that the drive is fine but there are some >> logical errors. > > I am sorry I dont have an answer for your question. I have a maxtor > 200 GB usb drive. The drive stops working if I try to copy large files > (say 150 mb) in linux partition. It works fine if I copy just small > files. I cant even mount other partitions of the usb drive when this > happens. The only option is to reboot the computer. I had similar problems until I switched to using Firewire and the drive had been working well until last Saturday. Though from time to time I could see some problems while reading some of the files... > > It has no problems in windows xp (large or small files). I am not sure > whether this is the usb drive problem or debian's problem. God knows > what's happening. > > Anyway, just thought I will vent my frustration with maxtor drives under > linux. > > bye > raju > > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > Cornell University > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- "A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charles Chaplin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
