my simpledrive external drive works fine on windows but i keep getting this error while mounting in ubuntu 10.04 with my account so i log in using the root account and this is what i get
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Just installed Slackware 13 this morning. It's been a long time since I last tried Linux, but Slack works (a lot easier than Slack 8 did back when I last used it!) quite well. I'm using the XFCE desktop and it's smooth as silk except for one odd problem-I cannot get any of my USB drives to mount. I just plugged in my Lexar 4GB USB flash drive and received an error message. Here's from /var/log/messages from when I initally plugged in the drive (I have a 500GB WD MyBook USB external drive that is always plugged in):
Any ideas or suggestions of what to look at? I'm not familiar with HAL in Linux although I've seen plenty of discussion about it and have an idea of what it's supposed to (or break! ).
Accidentally the usb plug on my WD "My Book" got halfway unplugged and I didn't notice it. when I rebooted it, it wouldn't read the drive. I tried using G Parted to repair it but no success, it just runs forever accessing the drive and never finishes. (I left it running an entire weekend and it didn't finish) the drive is formated ext3.
When I try to mount the drive in Ubuntu 9.10 it gives this error message:
Strangely if I boot into Windows and use the ext driver I can access the drive just fine. is this something I can fix? if needed I can use Windows to do any repairs.
I'm trying to get ubuntu 9.04 to recognize a Maxtor One Touch III USB external hard drive. This drive has been formatted and used on a Windows XP. I cleared everything off but am trying to see if I can arrange it so that I can back up from linux and access (if need be) from a Windows machine.
Here is what I get with fdisk -l:
/dev/sda1 * 1 14219 114214086 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14220 14593 3004155 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14220 14593 3004123+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Output of blkid:
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/dev/mapper/Tsunami_LVG1-LV_home: LABEL="home" UUID="cad22752-aca8-49c7-94b1-f08423819705" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/mapper/Tsunami_LVG1-LV_swap: TYPE="swap" UUID="5e1918d5-3a07-4dc5-8216-c4c0f4d1e341"
/dev/mapper/Tsunami_LVG1-LV_root: LABEL="root" UUID="cb276fc0-ced3-4926-81b8-757e5b68c4e5" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="boot" UUID="d00cac4f-6873-4188-b6e2-902740454ba1" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: UUID="T2wwpd-lG9L-IrHz-BfAx-pVse-3C9a-rBjT1R" TYPE="lvm2pv"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="504A0C654A0C4A64" LABEL="SEAGATE300" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="F8C85616C855D38A" LABEL="Expansion Drive" TYPE="ntfs"
/etc/fstab contents: .....
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fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/tb1: Input/output error
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cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
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I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installed on my machine. I am unable to mount an External Hard (NTFS). I have tried several options which are as under:
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(Seagate 2TB ST320005EXD101-RK)
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#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
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The mounting is done via NFS and this is my line:
Has someone an idea what this mounting problem is?
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I'm using Debian Etch.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
Writing to etrenal USB hard drive doesn't work:
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HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
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/dev/floppy-sdb /media/floppy vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
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usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0644, idProduct=0000
usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 5-1: Product: TEACV3.0
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Code: scsidev: '/dev/sr1'
devname: '/dev/sr1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.9
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my external HD's file format is vfat. and i am using ubuntu 10.04