Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:50:44AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > These days there are *FEW IF ANY* reasons to do a check and verify. Most > drives have on board error correction (both IDE and SCSI). So, in > essence, it is a waste of time. And if the on-board error correction can't handle it, th

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 06:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:27:29PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > The second drive is t

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-30 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:27:29PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > > > it, and it'

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing > > blocks

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing > blocks full of 0xaa, then reading them back, then repeating with -x55 > and

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:09:30PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:30:08PM -0500, Roby wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: > > >>

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:30:08PM -0500, Roby wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: > >> > > >> > Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded? > >> > >> No. it

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-26 Thread Roby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: >> > >> > Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded? >> >> No. it isn't. I guess a modprobe usb-storage is in order? > > Now it is, an

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-26 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: > > > > Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded? > > > > No. it isn't. I guess a modprobe usb-storage is in order? Now it is, and I'm using the 2.6.18-3 kernel.

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:28:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on my Debian etch AMD-64 system. Just to be precise, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux april 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ When I p

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded? No. it isn't. I guess a modprobe usb-storage is in order? :-) -- hendrik That's your problem Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-25 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: > > Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded? > No. it isn't. I guess a modprobe usb-storage is in order? :-) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-25 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:34:49PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > Hallo. > > 25-01-2007, hendrik: > > This is on my Debian etch AMD-64 system. Just to be precise, > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > > Linux april 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64 > > GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:28:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is on my Debian etch AMD-64 system. Just to be precise, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux april 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64 > GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > When I plug in my new 500GB

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-25 Thread Roby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is on my Debian etch AMD-64 system. Just to be precise, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux april 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64 > GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > When I plug in my new 500GB USB drive, it tells me: > > usb 2-7: new

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-25 Thread Oleg Verych
Hallo. 25-01-2007, hendrik: > This is on my Debian etch AMD-64 system. Just to be precise, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux april 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64 > GNU/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ return -EOLDKERNEL; Please, try 2.6.18 from testing. -- To U