Re: [CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, September 08, 2008 10:50 AM -0700 Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't paid 24x7 support! You need to wait more than a few hours before you re-pound (I mean resend) your message. Sorry about the resend. I was having mail server problems this weekend and was afraid

[CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Silva
snip More than likely it is a problem with the Linux reverse engineered support for a Windows proprietary file system. Why back up to NTFS? Originally I was backing up across the LAN to the drive attached to my XP workstation. That would isolate the error if it was caused by the NTFS driver.

Re: [CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 12:12 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip snip Sometimes a few of the PATA to USB interfaces do some strange things to I/O streams. I have a drive that would consistently lock my old XP workstations USB interfaces, but works fine on the new one. Although I don't *think*

Re: [CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread Toby Bluhm
Scott Silva wrote: snip More than likely it is a problem with the Linux reverse engineered support for a Windows proprietary file system. Why back up to NTFS? Originally I was backing up across the LAN to the drive attached to my XP workstation. That would isolate the error if it was caused

Re: [CentOS] Re: USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, September 08, 2008 4:04 PM -0400 Toby Bluhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could reformat the disk for ext2/3 install ext2ifs on the windows box: http://www.fs-driver.org Very nice, thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org