[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel message

[Val Harris]

I've been thinking about buying a USB drive.  Does anyone have
any recmmendations as to what's good and what's not?  Also,
back to the original question, how do I mount/unmount it
cleanly?

TIA,

Val
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Ted wrote:
> Here's a FWIW.  I will NOT buy any drive but IBM or WD.  Best 
> reliability.  Based on thousands of purchases.
> 
> Ted
> 
> At 12:33 PM 1/14/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 12:11 pm, David Ross wrote:
>> > Could someone point me too what this error means?
>> > Googling says it may be a HD going bad,but it is brand new.
>> > [root at localhost]# tail /var/log/messages
>> > kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>> > kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144
>> > ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed
>> >
>> > Brand new Maxtor 40 gig HD with fresh install of Mandrake 9.2
>> > Everything works perfect except for this error
>> >
>> > [root at localhost]# hdparm -v /dev/hda
>> >
>> > multcount = 16(on)
>> > IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
>> > unmaskirq = 1 (on)
>> > using_dma = 1 (on)
>> > keepsettings = 0 (off)
>> > readonly = 0 (off)
>> > readahead = 8 (on)
>> > geometry = 4998/255/63, sectors = 80293248, start = 0
>> >
>> > David
>>
>> Sorry ,but i found out it's my USB pocket drive not unmounting properly
>> When i plug it in an icon shows up on the desktop,but when i go to 
>> unmount
>> it says permission denied.So i've just been unplugging it.Do i need an 
>> entry
>> in fstab to be able to unmount?
>> David
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