On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Mikael Björn wrote: > I'm getting serious trouble from this driver since I tried to add a > LaCie d2 BigDisk 500 through the USB to the system (a 2.6.3 kernel). > Fdisk reports bogus drive geometry and only recognizes 1Gb out of the > 500Gb, which of course is really bad.
2.6.3 is pretty old. You should use something newer, like 2.6.8. > I can use this drive under Mac OSX and Windows 2k/XP/2k3 without any > problems. Linux allow me to create a partition on the "drive" after > I've been forced to change the geometry by hand. mkfs manages to > create a filesystem on this partition but fails to write the > superblock and therefore I'm unable to write anything to te drive... > Bad, right? > > I've looked through the kernel archives and there are some mentions > about this because there is something about the kernel just trying to > read BIOS for drive geometry and for a USB device that is a bit > cumbersome... right? Wrong. The kernel only uses BIOS for disk geometry information about IDE drives, not USB drives. > There seems to be some problems either with the BIOS part or there is > something in the handover between USB and SCSI layers. However I was > able to read this beast under 2.4.21 although formatted under XP and > with NTFS... No good! There is no BIOS part involved and no handover between USB and SCSI. > So here I am treading water with a useless 500Gb just waiting to be > used with Linux... > > Any ideas on how to get this on track again??? > > Thanks for any help! First try upgrading. If that doesn't help, you can get more information about what's happening by turning on the usb-storage verbose debugging option in your kernel configuration and rebuilding the driver. Post the dmesg contents showing the kernel log from when usb-storage is loaded and your device is detected, plus when you try to mount it. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users