On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry about the reply... > > The external caddy + disk works correctly on windows with no problems. > > BUT it's on a different system, due to the age of the laptop I'll struggle > to get XP on it to try the same hardware with windows. > > I've even tried different disks. > > On Linux it must write something, because when I run fdisk the second time, > it tells me that there is no partition on it. So it must have started to > write something in order to corrupt/wipe the partition table? Perhaps.
Yes, it must write something -- but not what you want it to write, because the data never got sent to the drive (or at least, the drive never acknowledged receiving it). Does the drive work okay on a different computer running Linux? Or can you borrow another Linux laptop (or one on which you can boot Knoppix), and use the drive along with the CardBus controller? After all, it's possible that the controller is at fault rather than the drive. It's even possible that the USB cable is causing the problem. Have you tried running at full speed rather than high speed, by doing "rmmod ehci-hcd" before plugging in the drive? Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
