On May 10, 2012 7:34 PM, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No
matter how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up
your USB cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that
fsck can save your
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Alex Alexander
alex.alexan...@gmail.com wrote:
for a system drive maybe, but I wouldn't trust my data on it yet. let it
mature a bit first :)
For something like Gentoo that uses rolling releases, a system drive
might be one of btrfs's better use cases anyway.
Den 2012-05-10 04:49, Frank Peters skrev:
The drive is pre-formatted with a ntfs filesystem, but using cfdisk I
re-partitioned the drive and formatted the new partitions with ext3.
Everything works nicely.
why not ext4 ?, imho ext4 is more caple of so big drives, specially on
fsck, my own
Indeed, EXT4 is the new standard IMOO.
2012/5/10 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org
Den 2012-05-10 04:49, Frank Peters skrev:
The drive is pre-formatted with a ntfs filesystem, but using cfdisk I
re-partitioned the drive and formatted the new partitions with ext3.
Everything works nicely.
why
On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:09 +0200
Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org wrote:
why not ext4 ?, imho ext4 is more caple of so big drives, specially on
fsck, my own qnap ts 419 p+ supports both so it must be good :=)
My plan for the drive is long-term and portable storage of digital files.
The idea
It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No matter
how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up your USB
cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that fsck can
save your drive without the journal.
Also, it probably won't hurt
Lie Ryan, mused, then expounded:
It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No matter
how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up your USB
cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that fsck can
save your drive without the
On Mon, 7 May 2012 09:34:58 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
The Seagate drive has already been returned to the seller.
I am expecting a Western Digital Elements 2TB USB HDD to
arrive in a few days. If this new drive also fails then I
will post more information.
I just
Am 07.05.2012 23:58, schrieb Michael Scherer:
meaning the controller then needs different outlets for 3.0 and 2.0
cables,
so I need to use 3.0 cable on the 3.0 one, but 2.0 cable on the other.
Not quite :). A 3.0 USB client (like a 3.0 HDD) will usually come with a
new 3.0 USB cable with
Hi,
Am 06.05.2012 20:29, schrieb Frank Peters:
Hello,
I recently acquired a Seagate USB external HDD but could not get it
to function on my Gentoo Linux.
Back in the olden days to most common mistake with custom build kernels
was not having SCSI disk support compiled in, but now that
On Sun, 6 May 2012 14:29:20 -0400
Frank Peters wrote:
... snip ...
Using a Gentoo Live DVD to boot Linux, the drive was recognized
without any read errors. In this case fdisk could recognize the
drive. I then attempted to reformat the drive with an ext2 file
system but the format failed.
On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:51:58 +0200
Thomas Rösner thomas.roes...@digital-trauma.de wrote:
What you also need is sd (which creates the accordingly
named /dev/sd? device).
Since I use SATA exclusively, sd is built in to the kernel.
As Paul Hartman has indicated, all that should be necessary
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:51:58 +0200
Thomas Rösner thomas.roes...@digital-trauma.de wrote:
What you also need is sd (which creates the accordingly
named /dev/sd? device).
Since I use SATA exclusively, sd is built
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
here are 3 or now I
think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI, UHCI, and then whatever USB
3.0 is using
XHCI
Furthermore, USB 3.0 has 9-pin ports and cables (for type-A) versus
the 4-pin of USB 1/2. The USB 3.0 sockets
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
here are 3 or now I
think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI, UHCI, and then whatever USB
3.0 is using
XHCI
Furthermore, USB 3.0 has
: Monday, 07 May, 2012 17:43
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
here are 3 or now I
think 4 different USB specs - EHCI, OHCI
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Michael Scherer
a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote:
Seems this either a typo, or a contradiction:
The USB 3.0 sockets are backward-compatible with older ... cables
would mean I can use the old cables for 3.0, but then
but older USB cables are not
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Scherer
a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
here are 3 or now I
think 4 different USB specs -
- Original Message -
From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Monday, 07 May, 2012 23:45
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Scherer
a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012
Hello,
I recently acquired a Seagate USB external HDD but could not get it
to function on my Gentoo Linux. Specifically, the drivers and commands
that I used were as follows:
modprobe sg
modprobe usb-storage
mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb
At this point, according to the kernel log, the
On 05/06/2012 12:29 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
Internet searches only provide comments from Ubuntu or Fedora users
stating that I plugged it in and it worked, which are next to useless.
I need to know what modules (drivers) and basic commands can get a Western
Digital USB external HDD to
On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:18:23 -0600
Stan Sander stsan...@sblan.net wrote:
I don't have one of those drives at the moment, but on my system I
typically have usb-common, usb-core, and usb-storage. Only thing I use
sg for is burning CD's/DVD's. You didn't mention this specifically, so
for what
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
My USB thumb drives can all be successfully recognized with the sg and
usb-storage modules (as shown in the commands above). Is this all I would
need to mount a Western Digital USB HDD or is there some other module
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