USB drive error

[Doooh_Head]

Thanks volksman, I'll give that a try tonight when I get home from work.
Knowing MS, that actually sounds likely.

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From: ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of volksman
Sent: August 15, 2008 9:37 AM
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
Subject: Re: USB drive error

I might be wrong but a chkdsk on that partition from Vista may help.  I
can't remember the error an NTFS partition will barf when it needs to be
scanned but they will refuse to mount if a chkdsk is needed.

Hope that helps!

Doooh_Head wrote:
> I tried that command.  It worked for some of the USB drives.  I am now 
> again suspecting that my external drive is toast.  I will have to try 
> taking it out of the external case and see if I can connect it up 
> internally and see if it works or not.  I'd hate to lose whats on it, 
> but I have previously backed up what I thought was important on it 
> (pictures, etc).  I may have to rebuild my music collection, but oh well.
>
> Now, apparently I can't mount one of my internal partitions.  I have a 
> dual-boot machine with Ubuntu and Vista.  I have a 250gb drive, 
> partitioned in half, with Ubuntu on one, Vista on the other.  Of 
> course from Ubuntu I was previously able to mount and see everything 
> on the Vista partition, but for some reason I now get an error 
> indicating that I don't have the priveledges to mount it.  The only 
> thing that has changed about the entire system is that the Vista 
> system has been in use more than it ever has been (my son has been 
> staying with us, and has been using it).  Normally I boot to it, run
Windows Update and thats the end of it.
>
> I checked my user priveledges to ensure I had the ability to mount 
> such things, and as far as I can tell I do.  I have all of the 
> existing priveledges checked-off for my user.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Doooh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of David Vincent
> Sent: August 14, 2008 9:01 PM
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> Subject: Re: USB drive error
>
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> Doooh Head wrote:
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>> After some recent Ubuntu updates, for some reason my USB drives are 
>> all messed up and I'm not sure if one of them is indeed dead or not.
>> Initially I thought that it was just dead but after looking at the 
>> System Log and seeing the following error I am suspecting something 
>> is wrong with my USB drives:
>>
>> Aug 14 19:50:46 ECLIPSE kernel: [34283.272231] usb 2-4: new high 
>> speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 59 ...
>> Aug 14 19:54:40 ECLIPSE kernel: [34468.837574] usb 2-4: new high 
>> speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 48
>>
>> The log is full of those messages.  It appears to be scanning through 
>> all of the possible addresses, the address count continually goes 
>> from
>> 1
>> - 127 then starts over again.
>>
>> I have a 500Gb external USB drive, a small thumb drive and various 
>> other USB connected devices (mouse, keyboard, printer) including a 
>> drive-bay mounted card reader that has slots for various memory card
>>     
> types.
>   
>> Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
>>     
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB#USB%202%20Issues
>
> specifically:
>
> sudo rmmod ehci_hcd
>
> my drive mounted right away.  albeit at USB 1.1 speeds - ouch.
>
> - -d
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