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Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:33:13 -0800 |
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schrieb walt <w41ter@×××××.com>: |
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> On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> <mega-snip> |
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> > What happens is that when I (cold) boot my desktop, my external Toshiba 3TB |
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> > drive (which is always connected via USB3) is detected, but cannot mount. It |
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> > *does* work once I unplug the USB3 plug and plug it back in. |
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> I once hated replies containing the question "Does it work under Windows?" but |
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> a bit of experience with usb3 external drives has made me rethink the matter. |
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> Here's my thinking: if the usb3 drive works correctly with Windows but not |
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> with linux, the problem is software -- i.e. the device driver. |
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That's what I hope. |
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> The xhci driver is under heavy development because usb3 is still new tech, and |
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> I've found and reported a few bugs in the last year or so and they got fixed. |
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Yeah, if its anything like the uas module, it'll have had many quirks added to |
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it in a short amount of time. |
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> If your Toshiba drive has no partitions formatted in an M$ filesystem, you |
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> could use gparted to make some free space on the drive and then create and |
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> format a new M$-readable partition just for testing purposes. |
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That'll be annoyingly time consuming, but I suppose you're right. |
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> I'm sure you don't have a Windows machine yourself, so you will need to make |
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> friends with somebody who does ;) |
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As a matter of fact, my brother has one ;) . |
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Greetings |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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