Am Freitag, 19. März 2004 16:05 schrieb Alan Stern: > > 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?
> That's very unlikely. Thank you. Also for your help. :) > > 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). > > Does it do that with the Firewire interface also? No, haven't tried FW yet. but I had the disk in use on 2.6.3 with FW, for months. Without a single problem. > > I really, really hope I didn't trash the contents of the partition =;) > Could be, but what you describe sounds more like a fault with the disk > controller or the media rather than the data. That's not much better as > far as you're concerned, unfortunately. Actually, it's a standard 3.5" disk. I can take it out of the case and put it into a desktop computer, theoretically. It's this case here: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3468919789&category=28852 > In fact, even if you want to abandon that partition and start over > fresh, you won't be able to write a new partition table on the disk > without taking some drastic steps. As soon as you plug in the drive, > before you can start to write the new partition table, your computer > will try to read the existing table and go nuts. Well, my question was if the USB attempts can generate spurious writes and trash the partition table. If I cannot access the partition table via USB because the USB controller is broken, that's bad, but it's not fatal. But if the connection attempts actually _write_ random garbage to disk, that would mean about two weeks of work lost for me ... I'm a bit uneasy because during the connection the "access" LED of the case was on constantly. -- Dipl.-Ing. Jens Benecke http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europas kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale seit 1998 http://www.rb-hosting.de - Webhosting mit Extras - PHP ab ¤9 - SSH ab ¤19 http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postfächer, garantiert! ------------------------------------------------------- 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_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel