> > > ** > am wondering why this HD may be crashing > > in an earlier thread there was a mention of a max of 16 partitions that > could operate at once. Now am assuming that these are 16 active partitions > and not those that do not load up. >
I guess I had mentioned the 15 partitions restriction, but that pertains to a single phyisical disk. It never let me create a 16th partition. On the other hand, my current laptop has partitions upto /dev/sda14 and everything is just fine. Even I have a 1TB external HDD with one 20GB partition as FAT32 and the rest as Ext4, that I connect to it and funnily enough, I too still use ubuntu 9.10 I dont really see any problems with it. Not quite sure why it is crashing for you > > Load up meaning that those lying dormant (unmounted) till a user calls them > into being or not formatted so not operational. > > ** > any advice > > ** > I am unmounting two more partitions to try the disk again. To see of that > makes a difference > > I think you should watch the output of /var/log/syslog and observe what messages are thrown out there when you connect the external HDD. I use : *$ tail -f /var/log/syslog -n 50 * Check if you receive some error messages in the syslog, that should provide some clue. Also try a live session of ubuntu on the same laptop/system and connect the external HDD then and observe the syslog too. Check out if there are any differences in the two outputs. Hopefully that can provide a clue. -- Nandan Vaidya
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