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.


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