Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jens Benecke wrote: > >> I have an external HDD (200G) in a case that has both FW and USB2 >> outputs. FW work great since 2.6.2, connecting the USB to a machine >> running 2.4.23 instantly rebooted the machine, and in 2.6 (currently >> 2.6.5rc1bk2) it doesn't work either: >> > It looks like it's a problem with the drive. Each time the system tries > to read the extended partition table, it says it was just reset. That > reset flag (technically called Unit Attention) is supposed to be cleared > when the device sends its status to the computer, but apparently it isn't.
Oops. I have only used this disk from the Firewire connector before. Is it entirely possible that connecting it via USB might have trashed contents on the disk? > However, the fact that it works okay with Windows means that the problem > is more complicated. Without more information, though, I can't suggest > anything to try. Well, it worked with Windows, when I had the drive partitioned into two partitions, on my laptop with USB 1.1 and Linux 2.4.23. Then I found out about the 2.4 bug regarding large FAT32 disks. I upgraded desktop and laptop to 2.6 but didn't try to connect the disk (yet). Yesterday, after I unsuccessfully tried to use it with 2.6.5rc1bk2, I tried Windows XP again - and failed as well. Three completely different machines would not accept this drive - the same symptoms as in Linux (fast blinking access LED on the drive and the system was basically 100% busy and non-responsive). I really, really hope I didn't trash the contents of the partition =;) -- Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer - garantiert! http://www.rb-hosting.de - PHP ab 9? - SSH ab 19? - günstiger Traffic . Please DO NOT CC: me, I read the lists and newsgroups I post in! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
