| 1 |
On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: |
| 2 |
<mega-snip> |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> What happens is that when I (cold) boot my desktop, my external Toshiba 3TB |
| 5 |
> drive (which is always connected via USB3) is detected, but cannot mount. It |
| 6 |
> *does* work once I unplug the USB3 plug and plug it back in. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
I once hated replies containing the question "Does it work under Windows?" but |
| 9 |
a bit of experience with usb3 external drives has made me rethink the matter. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
Here's my thinking: if the usb3 drive works correctly with Windows but not |
| 12 |
with linux, the problem is software -- i.e. the device driver. |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
The xhci driver is under heavy development because usb3 is still new tech, and |
| 15 |
I've found and reported a few bugs in the last year or so and they got fixed. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
If your Toshiba drive has no partitions formatted in an M$ filesystem, you |
| 18 |
could use gparted to make some free space on the drive and then create and |
| 19 |
format a new M$-readable partition just for testing purposes. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
I'm sure you don't have a Windows machine yourself, so you will need to make |
| 22 |
friends with somebody who does ;) |
Archives