hardy, and usb drives, does anyone have one that works?

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Jim Smith wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> steve wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I have 2 usb hard drives sitting collecting dust because I cannot
>>>>>> figure out how to read and write to them.  1 is 80 gig seagate, and
>>>>>> the other is 160 gig fantom.  Both HAVE worked on ubuntu in the
>>>>>> past, from 5.x right up through gutsy.
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>     Since nothing seems to work here is a sure fire method I had to use
>>>> once.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> [snipped procedure to repartition and format]
>>>
>>> Karl,
>>>
>>> in the text you quoted, Steve wrote that it worked until Gutsy. There is 
>>> no reason to believe it would help to repartition and format the drives. 
>>> Furthermore it would have been nice to point out that your procedure will 
>>> wipe out any data still on the drives.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     It should be known to anyone that changing the file system will wipe 
>> out any previous data. The first words seem to indicate he has a problem 
>> with Hardy. That could be true but if true it is a big problem with many 
>> components of Hardy.
>>     
>
> I doubt it. I use USB drives all the time under Hardy. I had problems 
> during one upgrade batch where it wasn't detecting the drives right away 
> at startup, and one daemon was coming up at first login with an error 
> about not starting (I think it was avahi). Even then I would log out and 
> wait a bit and log back in, and if that didn't work, unplug the drives 
> and plug them back in until they were recognized.
>
> A couple weeks later another set up updates seemed to fix that problem.
> Hardy before that didn't have that problem on my system.
>
> If *no* USB drives are working for him I'd suspect cables or a problem 
> with the hardware in the CPU; has he tried other ports and/or a 
> replacement cable? Another possibility depends on whether he's using a 
> USB hub; if something plugged in to that needs more power and the hub 
> isn't being externally powered, there's all sorts of weirdness that can 
> result...drives dropping, data dropping, devices not working or 
> glitching out...
>
> I haven't been following the thread, but these are some other 
> suggestions. My last one before bowing out would be to boot with 
> liveboot CD's of Ubuntu and other distros (since they won't screw up his 
> hard disk) and plug in the USB devices to see if they're recognized. If 
> it's a software problem with his configuration the devices should pop 
> right up, since these should be known-good configs. If they don't, it's 
> hardware-scopin' time.
>
> Was this any help?
>
> -Bart
>
>   
    A good question: is the computer a new one you purchased after you 
ran Gutsey?

    If new does the USB ports work?

Karl


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