Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I have multiple external USB drives that I use with this kernel. > However I do have a couple that don't seem to work so well. My clue is > to look at dmesg with the drive attached and then again after the > drive is first attached. In the case of a good drive I'm going to get > a bunch of messages about the drive and its partitions. Look carefully > at the device name >From dmesg: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 12 usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 12 usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 14 usb 4-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 14 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 100D PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete ReiserFS: sdb5: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb5: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb7: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb7: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb9: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry ReiserFS: sdb9: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry NTFS-fs warning (device sdc1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel. NTFS volume version 3.1. NTFS-fs error (device sdc1): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty. Mounting read-only. Run chkdsk and mount in Windows. I'm definitely seeing your issues. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
