On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Jens Benecke wrote: > Well, my question was if the USB attempts can generate spurious writes and > trash the partition table. If I cannot access the partition table via USB > because the USB controller is broken, that's bad, but it's not fatal. But > if the connection attempts actually _write_ random garbage to disk, that > would mean about two weeks of work lost for me ...
USB transfer, in and of itself, won't generate spurious writes. But if your disk's interface controller is broken, all bets are off. > I'm a bit uneasy because during the connection the "access" LED of the case > was on constantly. Since a read transfer was taking place at the time of the hang (the computer was reading the extended partition table), the LED probably indicates the drive was continuing the read operation, not starting a write operation. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
