He guys, I regularly attach a friend’s external HDD to my laptop or NAS, both running “standard” Gentoo. The main partition is fat32 formatted. On and off she has problems mounting the drive, usually after I had it connected to one of my machines.
It happened again today. So chronologically: 1) Someone else attached the drive to his Windows 10 laptop and put a few Gigs into a single folder. 2) Then I attached it to my NAS, which didn’t even create a device for it. I read some hardware error in the system log. 3) I attached it to my laptop. It also showed the error message (see below), but it did create a device and I could mount the data partition. Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [descriptor] Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e5 00 When I had the drive hooked to my laptop in 3), I was shuffling stuff around on it (mostly copying and deleting a few files from the folder mentioned in 1) and renaming files in other places). Today she left me a note saying her Windows needed to check the drive and now that folder was missing. I found that Windows “recovered” its contend into /FOUND.001 with all filenames lost. m( Naturally, I always unmount the drive prior to removing it physically, usually with KDE’s media manager. The drive (or the controller in the case?) contains a cdrom emulation to offer drivers and something called “WD SmartWare”. *shiver* I always wonder whether this plays a part with our problems. When the drive is connected to Windows – IIRC – first the cdrom appears, and after a while disappears and makes way for the actual data partition. Do you have similar experiences and maybe even a tip on how to make her and my systems play along better? The only thing coming to my mind right now is to ditch fat32 and go with something more robust like exfat(?) or ntfs. Cheerio. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. A wise man once said: “Web 2.0, that is round corners.” I think that is a very fitting summary of two hypes. (SelfHTML forum)
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