Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab

[Tony Corbett]

nuh, the ehd cable is about 0.5 m at most

> Subject: RE: Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab
> From: mario.vukelic at dantian.org
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:41:46 +0200
> 
> 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?)
> 
> 
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