On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Herrington < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Not any shared FS's that I'm aware of. There is a driver/software component that will allow you to use EXT2/3 FS on a drive and read, mount and write to it just as if it were a native FS mount. It installs once, you assign a drive letter to the device and you're good to go. I'll dig up the link for it if that seems of interest. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
