External Backup Disk Drive

[Ramesh Rao]

It is a Catch 22 proposition. In order to upgrade, I thought of backing up files on the external drive. Now it seems I need to upgrade in order for the ext drive to work.

Never a dull moment in this software-business!

Thanks all the same.

Ramesh

> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:02:30 +0200
> From: o.sinclair at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: External Backup Disk Drive
> 
> 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?
> 
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