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. ... <snip> ...
With the LiveCD running, try the following commands
"lsusb -v" to list information on the usb devices found by
Gentoo
"lsmod" to list the modules loaded.
HTH,
David
