Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-21 Thread Bernard
Adding something to my recent post underneath quoted : I have now installed u3-tool and tested it. At first, I had to check which devices were concerned. Plugging / unplugging my 'My Book' into a USB slot, activates/deactivates : /dev/sr0 /dev/sg2 /dev/sg3 /dev/sg4 I can also see /dev/sg0 an

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-21 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:24:26 +0200, Bernard wrote: > #fdisk says : "sector size 2048 (not 512). Unable to write /dev/sr0 - > will not be able to write the partition table > When you run dmesg, what does it say about this drive? -- Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-21 Thread Bernard
Thanks for your reply. I did carry a search on the list, which lead me to 'u3-tools' for Linux, downloadable from sourceforge. It is an alpha testing program, which I ought to compile on my system. I will look it up more in details this afternoon. I don't really care that much if it renders my

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
I was OP on the recent thread. Use my name in search. Also look for mention of U3. U3 is an emerging software technology for making part of a hard disk appear to be a CD. If you want to get rid of this feature you must download some software from WD site. They don't have support for Linux, but this

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Bernard put forth on 4/20/2010 8:24 PM: > Hi to Everyone ! > > I had 3 external usb disks for savings. None of them refused to operate > under Debian Linux, indeed they worked 'out of the box', even though > Linux was not mentioned as a compatible system in the notices. > Could someone suggest

problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-20 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone ! I had 3 external usb disks for savings. None of them refused to operate under Debian Linux, indeed they worked 'out of the box', even though Linux was not mentioned as a compatible system in the notices. Today, since my above mentioned drives have no more space available, I