Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-12-01 Thread sean
On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a drive case? I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical parameters on the cable just

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-11-30 Thread sean
On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-11-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when attached to 4 of the machines but produces a

[gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-11-27 Thread sean
I have two 500GB USB drives that my Gentoo system here will not read. Both these drives are fat formatted. The tail of DMESG, the entries actually go on for a long long time, has the following report for either of those two drives, [ 6027.085508] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-11-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:08:10 -0500 sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I have two 500GB USB drives that my Gentoo system here will not read. Both these drives are fat formatted. The tail of DMESG, the entries actually go on for a long long time, has the following report for either of

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-11-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:08:10 -0500 sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I have two 500GB USB drives that my Gentoo system here will not read. Both these drives are fat formatted. The tail of DMESG, the entries