Re: USB Drive "The location could not be displayed"

2016-08-30 Thread Johann Spies
On 29 August 2016 at 20:20, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > > > I tried changing permissions of /media. Not solved. > > an NTFS partition was not mountable unless dismounted from the automatic > mount point; as far as I can see, this is not the case for vfat or ext4 > partitions. > > I did copy a udev

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Moore wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On one hand I don't think it's such a big burden to use su/do or similar > > for this type of operation, on the other hand it's slightly easier to > > pick the wrong device and destroy your data. > > Andrei, the issue of IF the pen-drive was automounted

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 December 2014 10:29:51 Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 16:46 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + > > > > Brian wrote: > > > > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > > > > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file s

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 16:46 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + > Brian wrote: > > > > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > > > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has > > > been opened read-only. > >

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/21/2014 04:31 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On one hand I don't think it's such a big burden to use su/do or similar for this type of operation, on the other hand it's slightly easier to pick the wrong device and destroy your data. Andrei, the issue of IF the pen-drive was automounted on ins

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + Brian wrote: > > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has > > been opened read-only. > Hve you not yet come to terms with the fact that your USB stick has > c

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Dec 2014 at 11:34:38 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: > Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdi has > been opened read-only. Hve you not yet come to terms with the fact that your USB stick has co

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Dec 2014 at 11:31:19 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 20 dec 14, 19:50:51, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > Good question. It feels like we have come full circle. That was the > > way it was before the introduction of devfs and udev. It appears that > > things now have returned to the

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:00:52 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> # ls -l /dev/sdi > >> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi > > Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by > > the leading b in the permissions above, > That's not a permis

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 12/21/2014 11:49 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:07:25 -0300 > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >> # ls -l /dev/sdi >> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi > Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by the > leading b in the

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:49:43 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Hello Renaud, >> # ls -l /dev/sdi >> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi >Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted >by the leading b in the permissions above, and same for the trailing

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Ron
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:07:25 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > # ls -l /dev/sdi > brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 128 Dec 19 07:59 /dev/sdi Anyone know where I could find info on the special permission denoted by the leading b in the permissions above, and same for the trailing T ? Cheers,

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 dec 14, 19:50:51, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Good question. It feels like we have come full circle. That was the > way it was before the introduction of devfs and udev. It appears that > things now have returned to the way it was before udev. Which won't > bother the old-school Unix folks

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > floppy group. The console user is also set up with the floppy group > > too. Assuming one of libpam, consolekit, systemd-login0 and so forth. > > Therefore the console user doesn't need to be root. They can write to > > the write to it directly. > > It is as

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 15:13:04 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > > > > > > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > > > > > Th

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > > > > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > > > Thee is no need to be root to copy the ISO. > > Of course there is no need

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 dec 14, 10:15:32, Brian wrote: > On Fri 19 Dec 2014 at 05:45:33 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > Thee is no need to be root to copy the ISO

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 07:55:35AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: [916394.028162] sd 30:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect is on Well, the pen drive is certainly read-only. You’re saying, that you have no hardware switch on the device. Stupid question, did you ever write anything to this drive? Can it

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Brad Rogers wrote: > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? > > I had similar issues with a USB hard drive. It turns out that I needed > ntfs-3g installed. Maybe it's the same for you. That would help if the task was to mount an ntfs usb storage device a

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system > > > > Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? > > Try > > mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdi That would actually be b

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:13:59 +0100 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > A google search reveals it is a common problem that should be fixed with > sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdi # hdparm -r0 /dev/sdi /dev/sdi: setting readonly to 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) after which again: # dd bs=4M if=debi

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:45:33AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system Read-only file system on /dev/sdi?? This

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Dec 2014 at 11:47:38 +0100, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > 2014-12-19 11:28 GMT+01:00 Renaud OLGIATI : > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:15:32 + > > Brian wrote: > > > >> > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > >> > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso o

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Dec 2014 at 12:13:59 +0100, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > 2014-12-19 11:55 GMT+01:00 Renaud OLGIATI : > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:42:44 +0100 > > Stephan Seitz wrote: > > > >> The output of dmesg may give more information. > > > > # dmesg > > [916394.028162] sd 30:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 07:55:35AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:42:44 +0100 > Stephan Seitz wrote: > > > The output of dmesg may give more information. > > after a # dmesg -c > /dev/null > > # dmesg > [916392.905430] usb 3-6.2: new high-speed USB device number 8

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:45:33 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Hello Renaud, >Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? I had similar issues with a USB hard drive. It turns out that I needed ntfs-3g installed. Maybe it's the same for you. -- Regards _ / ) "The bl

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-19 11:55 GMT+01:00 Renaud OLGIATI : > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:42:44 +0100 > Stephan Seitz wrote: > >> The output of dmesg may give more information. > > # dmesg > [916394.028162] sd 30:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect is on > > The drive does not have a HW write-protection switch. Where does thi

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:42:44 +0100 Stephan Seitz wrote: > The output of dmesg may give more information. after a # dmesg -c > /dev/null # dmesg [916392.905430] usb 3-6.2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd [916393.015968] usb 3-6.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, i

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-19 11:28 GMT+01:00 Renaud OLGIATI : > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:15:32 + > Brian wrote: > >> > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. >> > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync >> > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system > >>

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:45:33 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system > > Is there a way to force it to mount read-

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:45:33AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system I guess that /dev/sdi is your USB pen drive? Does t

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Ron
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:15:32 + Brian wrote: > > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system > It contains am ISO9660 file system which, by design, i

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Dec 2014 at 05:45:33 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync Thee is no need to be root to copy the ISO. > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system It

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-05-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Hmm... I guess I'm going to have to test it in a minimal environment >> where I'm reasonably sure there can't be some "clever" daemon >> interfering while trying to do something useful. > Did you find the solution? And if yes, what was it? I think the problem was hardware. At least I'm now usi

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-05-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Hmm... I guess I'm going to have to test it in a minimal environment > where I'm reasonably sure there can't be some "clever" daemon > interfering while trying to do something useful. Hi, Did you find the solution? And if yes, what was it? --

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-04-18 Thread Valentin Guggiana
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). I had the same problem running CentOS 6 and Xvnc. Xvnc leads to load some Gnome apps and daemons. One of them is the udisks-daemon (/usr/libexec/udisks-daemon under CentOS

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The hard disk can have set (by default) embbeded routines that make the > disk to be "awaked" at a regular interval and external disks (those that > come with USB enclosures or NAS/SAN appliances) tend to do it to speed up > things (e.g., to run scheduled backup tasks). For a NAS, I could agree.

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:46:59 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). (...) >> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? IIRC, >> this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also "/usr/ >> share

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 mar 12, 09:46:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Even when not mounted (and with its LVM volumes deactivated) it still > spins-up. This sounds like BIOS or drive firmware. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). >>> (...) > Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? > IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also > "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic") but as the man page/doc > says

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 24 mar 12, 14:03:58, Curt wrote: > On 2012-03-24, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > My problem is that apparently some application somehow accesses the > > drive but not in a way that block_dump catches. > > It won't spin up if it's not mounted, will it? If it still does then at least Stefan

Re: USB Drive

2012-03-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:08:55 -0700, Charles Chambers wrote: > I've just installed Debian 5.0 on an old computer, and I'm having > problems getting a backup USB drive to automount. > > I have a mount point set up at /media/usb, and I set it to be world > readable (drwxrwxrwx). It is better not us

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-03-24, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > My problem is that apparently some application somehow accesses the > drive but not in a way that block_dump catches. It won't spin up if it's not mounted, will it? I mean, I believe you mentioned you only use the drive once a day for back-up purposes, so

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:15:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). >> (...) > Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also "/usr/ share/doc/hdp

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). > (...) Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? >>> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also >>> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic") but as the man page/doc says, >>> the poss

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:47:36 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). (...) >>> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? > >> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also >> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/RE

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). >> >> This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always >> idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place >> where I can easily plug it in and out. >> >> Googling, I found a very similar lo

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). > > This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always > idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place > where I can easily plug it

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 09:09:55PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:07:53 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:24:01AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Even if you boot up with just the USB hard disk attached? :-? > >> > > Found that if I power down the com

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:07:53 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:24:01AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Even if you boot up with just the USB hard disk attached? :-? >> > Found that if I power down the computer - not just reboot - and connect > the USB drive its drive light be

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:24:01AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:11:02 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:54:54PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Remove all the USB devices that are attached to the computer and just > >> leave the USB hard disk. Are yo

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:11:02 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:54:54PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Remove all the USB devices that are attached to the computer and just >> leave the USB hard disk. Are you still getting the warnings when only 1 >> USB device is connected? >

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:54:54PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:46:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:31:30PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> Just for testing purposes... what happens if you disconnect the USB > >> cable of the UPS unit

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:46:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:31:30PM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Just for testing purposes... what happens if you disconnect the USB >> cable of the UPS unit from the computer and boot up the system >> afterwards? Are you getting th

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:23:07 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Camaleón [101214 12:35]: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >> > A Toshiba usb hard drive previously registered with no difficulty on >> > one computer but still registers with no difficulty on a seco

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:23:07PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Camaleón [101214 12:35]: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > A Toshiba usb hard drive previously registered with no difficulty on one > > > computer but still registers with no difficulty

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:31:30PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:10:20 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:48:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:29:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > You mean the USB hard disk is wor

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Camaleón [101214 12:35]: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > A Toshiba usb hard drive previously registered with no difficulty on one > > computer but still registers with no difficulty on a seconcd computer. ... > You can make a quick test: run " dmesg | grep [e

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:10:20 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:48:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:29:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > You mean the USB hard disk is working properly but logs that output >> > or you get the errors and the

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:48:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:29:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > A Toshiba usb hard drive previously registered with no difficulty on one > > > computer but still

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:29:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > A Toshiba usb hard drive previously registered with no difficulty on one > > computer but still registers with no difficulty on a seconcd computer. > > Both computers are u

Re: usb drive nolonger registers on one pc, still registers on another

2010-12-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > A Toshiba usb hard drive previously registered with no difficulty on one > computer but still registers with no difficulty on a seconcd computer. > Both computers are using the Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 stock kernel but the > one with the pr

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

2009-04-04 Thread Bryce
Vivek Sahukar wrote: > I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service > pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive.my flash drive (vfat > filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's plugged into usb port. > But my external hard drive and windows partition dri

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

2009-04-04 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza wrote: El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Vivek Sahukar escribió: I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive. my flash drive (vfat filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's plugge

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

2009-04-02 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza wrote: El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Vivek Sahukar escribió: I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive. my flash drive (vfat filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's pl

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

2009-04-01 Thread Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza
El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Vivek Sahukar escribió: > I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp > service pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive. > my flash drive (vfat filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's > plugged into usb port. > But my ex

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-11 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:01:59 +0100, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That looks more and more like you found a regression in the USB driver. > If you can reproduce the problem with an upstream 2.6.27 kernel then it > is probably best to contact the kernel mailing list directly about thi

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 18:13:21 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:34:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > modprobe -r ehci_hcd > > > > That did not work for me. > > > You could also try if the 2.6.27 kernel improves the situation. (What > > you report in your other mail in

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:34:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > modprobe -r ehci_hcd > That did not work for me. > You could also try if the 2.6.27 kernel improves the situation. (What > you report in your other mail indicates that WinXP can operate the > I quess, I can

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:05:33 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: [...] > Here is the log: > > virsik:~# tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog [ snip: camera recognized, hal reacts normally, sd driver loaded; everything looks fine until... ] > Nov 9 10:54:18 virsik kernel: [ 4016.216143] usb 4-3: reset high s

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
Additionally - I rebooted my laptop toto Windows XP Home, connected the camera and copied ~500 MB of video clips and images to computer. It worked just fine, it took less than a minute to copy and there were no errors in event log. -- Virgo Pärna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:27:04 +0100, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog > > This will list all new messages appearing in the system log. (You can > exit with CTRL-C.) Then plug in the camera, turn it on, and wait at > least thirty seconds. Post the syslog messages

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:31:25 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:52:46 +1030, en0f wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure this is hardware problem. Check that it works under > > other OS and make sure the cablings and USB2IDE adapters are OK. > > > > I am having same problem with

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-06 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:52:46 +1030, en0f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am pretty sure this is hardware problem. Check that it works under > other OS and make sure the cablings and USB2IDE adapters are OK. > I am having same problem with my Pentax Optio E50 digital compact camera. It work

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-10-29 Thread en0f
Hugo Wau wrote: My external 500 GB USB drive had never worked immediately, but when it was warmed up, it finally connected and could be used. But now have I come to a point, that the connection does not work any more - not with ohci_hcd, nor with ehci_hcd, when the letter "o" (in *o*hci_hcd) ge

Re: USB drive names

2008-05-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Ron Johnson wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > I bought some USB external hard disks recently. They automount > > beautifully on a Debian system. > When you say that, do you mean the automount daemon, autofs, or > a similar feature built into various desktops? Sorry, I should have said "on an

Re: USB drive names

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I bought some USB external hard disks recently. They automount beautifully on a Debian system. One is a "LACIE" disk, another one is a Western Digital "Elements" disk. They mount as /media/LaCie and /media/Elements respectively. Question: is it possible to change those

Re: USB drive names

2008-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/28/08 12:58, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I bought some USB external hard disks recently. They automount > beautifully on a Debian system. When you say that, do you mean the automount daemon, autofs, or a similar feature built into various deskto

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On 11/17/06, Roby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Seems like doing an umount after/during unplug would lead to data loss > >if the device had been written to recently. How do buffers get flushed? No. It's the unplugging device without unpluggins/syncing, what causes data loss. On 17.11.06 22:18,

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/17/06, Roby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: usbmount: "This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are removed..." Seems like doing an umount after/during unplug would lead to data loss if the device had

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-17 Thread Roby
Jason Dunsmore wrote: > On 11/16/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> you can use 'usbmount' for automatic mounting of usb storage devices. >> However I'm afraid your USB flashdisk is dead... > > The USB flashdisk isn't dead. It works when I mount it manually. > > I didn'

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/16/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you can use 'usbmount' for automatic mounting of usb storage devices. However I'm afraid your USB flashdisk is dead... The USB flashdisk isn't dead. It works when I mount it manually. I didn't know about usbmount. I'll give it a

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.11.06 12:03, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > I just started having trouble automounting my usb drive. When I plug > it in, the kernel recognizes it: > usb-storage: device found at 5 > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > Vendor: Corsair Model: Flash Voyager Rev: 1.00 >