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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:55:11
Message-Id: 20170922105601.GD11083@kern
1 He guys,
2
3 I regularly attach a friend’s external HDD to my laptop or NAS, both running
4 “standard” Gentoo. The main partition is fat32 formatted. On and off she has
5 problems mounting the drive, usually after I had it connected to one of my
6 machines.
7
8 It happened again today. So chronologically:
9 1) Someone else attached the drive to his Windows 10 laptop and put a few
10 Gigs into a single folder.
11 2) Then I attached it to my NAS, which didn’t even create a device for it. I
12 read some hardware error in the system log.
13 3) I attached it to my laptop. It also showed the error message (see below),
14 but it did create a device and I could mount the data partition.
15
16 Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result:
17 Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
18 Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [descriptor]
19 Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
20 Sep 22 12:14:53 kern kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e5 00
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23 When I had the drive hooked to my laptop in 3), I was shuffling stuff around
24 on it (mostly copying and deleting a few files from the folder mentioned in
25 1) and renaming files in other places). Today she left me a note saying her
26 Windows needed to check the drive and now that folder was missing. I found
27 that Windows “recovered” its contend into /FOUND.001 with all filenames
28 lost. m(
29
30 Naturally, I always unmount the drive prior to removing it physically,
31 usually with KDE’s media manager. The drive (or the controller in the case?)
32 contains a cdrom emulation to offer drivers and something called “WD
33 SmartWare”. *shiver* I always wonder whether this plays a part with our
34 problems. When the drive is connected to Windows – IIRC – first the
35 cdrom appears, and after a while disappears and makes way for the actual
36 data partition.
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38
39 Do you have similar experiences and maybe even a tip on how to make her and
40 my systems play along better? The only thing coming to my mind right now is
41 to ditch fat32 and go with something more robust like exfat(?) or ntfs.
42
43 Cheerio.
44
45 --
46 Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’
47 Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network.
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49 A wise man once said: “Web 2.0, that is round corners.”
50 I think that is a very fitting summary of two hypes. (SelfHTML forum)

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Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>