[NTLUG:Discuss] USB drive

[Randall Weyers]

My experience with qtparted it has cost me two os so I just do it the hard 
way fdisk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred" <fredstevens at yahoo.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] USB drive


>I powered off the drive/adapter while still attached to the USB port,
> then powered on and read dmesg. I kept reading dmesg for the next
> almost ten minutes and got this:
>
> usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: new device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0702
> usb 4-4: new device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
> usb 4-4: Product: USB TO IDE
> usb 4-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 23
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>  Vendor: MAXTOR S  Model: TM3160215A        Rev: 0811
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda:<6>usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 23
> sd 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> unable to read partition table
> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> =============================
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> So, I guess that tells me in black and white that my feeble attempt to
> partition the drive failed miserably. Unless the adapter board is the
> problem, which I doubt because I got my old Win95 1.6GB disk down
> and installed it in the same adapter and it worked fine. So...
>
> As I see it, I have to use FAT32 for compatibility. WinXP won't do more
> than 32MB of FAT32 so I have to use Linux. Why did qtparted not work?
> It said it did. When I did a df, I saw a clean 149GB of FAT32 reported.
> So what is going on with this drive? I used a quick format program
> fat32format.exe with XP while the drive was on the IDE bus. What
> am I missing??
>
> Fred
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