Andre S:

I can't check the drive with this special error under windows because
I'm not able to mount ext3 there.

Ouch, I woke up in the night thinking about this remark ...

Do you mean to say we've connected here in usb-storage before making destructive experiments ok?

You haven't yet established confidence in a copy of this data backed up somewhere else?

I've been speaking here in usb-storage as if already you know: mistakes like typing of= in place of if= can be as disastrous as naming the wrong device for mkfs, and any rewritable mount by definition can scramble a disk. Root-privileged SCSI pass thru generally can rudely knock out part or all of the kernel, especially if we don't work to keep the timeouts tight. I don't mean to be destructive, but since I'm speaking only from memory, and not from a gcc-capable Linux, I could easily send you a few dramatically wrong command line chars.

Pat LaVarre

P.S. I particularly appreciate you making time to try my pldd, I've blogged a paraphrase of your results into my:

Subject: pldd issues
http://plavarre.blog-city.com/read/596492.htm



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