I have a preference question. I bought a Western Digital 280 gig disk and put vmware images on it for my team at work. I use Ubuntu as my main OS though, and most everyone else uses Windows. I left the original format as NTFS. The other day the cat graciously pulled the power plug on my desktop and I had to plug the usb drive in about five or six times before it automounted in Ubuntu. During each attempted mount I got to see these in dmesg:
[1881626.372625] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [1881626.664589] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [1881626.944548] usb 1-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7 [1881627.352609] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 7, error -62 [1881627.528547] usb 1-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7 [1881627.936543] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 7, error -62 [1881627.938400] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 7 [1881628.120569] usb 1-5: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8 [1881628.300720] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62 I suspect it's probably some special feature of NTFS and the usb disk not getting unmounted properly, as I've seen this before with other NTFS USB disks. I'd like to reformat the drive to a better FS, but I can't force all the Windows guys to have to get special software just to read the disk. Does windows only read FAT32 and NTFS? Is there a better shared FS to format the drive as that eliminates this problem? thanks, -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
