External Backup Disk Drive

[O. Sinclair]

On 28/06/2013 07:30, Ramesh Rao wrote:
> My work station (Sun Ultra 20 M2) has six *USB 2.0 ports*. I am plugging
> in *USB 3.0* external drive (Seagate Backup Plus). I am pretty sure it
> is backward compatible.
>
> Incidentally, couple of hours back, I plugged in the same device on an
> identical machine (Sun Ultra 20 M2). Lo and behold, the drive was up and
> working in 5 minutes. I have saved the outputs from fdsik, lsusb, lsblk,
> tail /var/log/syslog etc
>
> The *ONLY difference is that the other machine is running kubuntu
> version 12.04*. It certainly points to some issue with the one that I am
> using- kubuntu version 11.10.
>
> I shall email copies of the command outputs tomorrow, Fri 28.
>
11.10 could very well have issues with USB3 devices, why not upgrade?