On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Nandan Vaidya <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> ** >> am wondering why this HD may be crashing >> >> in an earlier thread there was a mention of a max of 16 partitions that >> could operate at once. Now am assuming that these are 16 active partitions >> and not those that do not load up. >> > > > I guess I had mentioned the 15 partitions restriction, but that pertains to > a single phyisical disk. It never let me create a 16th partition. > On the other hand, my current laptop has partitions upto /dev/sda14 and > everything is just fine. > > thanks > > Even I have a 1TB external HDD with one 20GB partition as FAT32 and the > rest as Ext4, that I connect to it and funnily enough, I too still use > ubuntu 9.10 > I dont really see any problems with it. Not quite sure why it is crashing > for you > > > >> >> ** >> I am unmounting two more partitions to try the disk again. To see of that >> makes a difference >> >> seems unmounting extra partitions has been working because the same hard disk is no longer crashing > > I think you should watch the output of /var/log/syslog and observe what > messages are thrown out there when you connect the external HDD. > > I use : > > *$ tail -f /var/log/syslog -n 50 * > > > will watch this and see if there is some strange things in the output and will compare with when i have mounted partitions and when i don't ram
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