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On 1/12/06, Stefan Riha <stefanriha@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> Yesterday I bought an external hard drive (lacie, 250 GB, usb 2.0). |
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> I did |
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> >fdisk /dev/sda1 |
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> and created a single primary partition. |
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> this creates /dev/sda1p1 or something like that. |
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> (could my problem have to do with the fact that I didn't do |
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> >fdisk /dev/sda |
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> instead? I mean, without the 1 at the end of the line?) |
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Normally, yes, you would want "fdisk /dev/sda". What you did is |
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partition a partition... |
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But if you are only going to use a single partition, you actually |
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don't need to partition it at all. You can simply: |
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# be really damn careful to type this correctly!! |
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 |
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printf "w\n" | fdisk /dev/sda |
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mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda |
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mount /dev/sda /mnt/external |
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> and it worked. |
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> Now the problem is that when I copy data from my computers hard drive to |
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> the external drive, the process often hangs up. In KDE's copy process |
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> window appears "stalled". |
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There are some cases when this is normal (like if the drive is working |
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at USB1.1 speeds, writing at 1M/sec. With a lot of ram (like 500M?, |
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then the copy can stall for 7-8 minutes at a time as the buffers get |
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flushed to disk). You could also get this if you use the old/slow USB |
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driver. |
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We need some more details of your kernel configuration. Are you using |
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the ehci and usb-storage drivers? Can you post the dmesg output from |
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when you turn on the drive? |
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> The real big problem is that I cannot remount the ehd again. |
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> When I do |
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> >mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/external |
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> there is no error message, but the process is never terminated. |
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> The cursor jumps to the next line and nothing happens, |
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> except that the green light on the ehd starts burning. |
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> Seems like the Filesystem is destroyed? |
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Could be the journal trying to fix the filesystem...and again, taking |
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forever to do it. |
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> Did I use the right format (ext3)? |
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> What's the command for formating in xfs? |
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The filesystem type isn't important. ext3 is fine. |
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> I use genkernel 2.4 (and don't want to upgrade), is that part of the problem? |
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lspci and dmesg output please. |
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-Richard |
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