Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 11:32 +1000, Tony Corbett wrote:
> i've had this maxtor ehd working fine on this pc with windows 
> i also downloaded the seagate software and had it working on the
> laptop at work
> with windows

OK

> my 250 MB usb storage key works fine with ubuntu in all ports 

OK

> someone suggested i get a windows pc and run scan / defrag

That can't hurt. One other thing just came to my mind, though. I
remember to have had unspecific I/O errors like this, too. This was when
I placed my external HD and other gear on a chest and ran a long cable
to my laptop, via a cheap USB hub.

It turned out that the combination of long cheap cable (a bit more than
the 5 meters that the USB spec allows) and cheap hub was a no-no.
Changing to higher-quality stuff fixed it.

You might want to check cable length and quality, etc. (When the Maxtor
worked in Windows, did you use the same cable and hub setup?)