Re: [Hampshire] Peculiar behaviour of USB disk

Tim B - Systems wrote:
> I have used an 80GB Western Digital external drive with no problems on
> Mandrake 9 & 10 and Mandriva 2006 & 2007. I now use a standard 3.5" internal
> HDD and an E-buyer USB/Firewire Caddy as it is cheaper.
>
> Verify your external disk (ie run fsck on it) it sounds like an HDD problem.
> Is it getting particularly hot?
>
> Hope some of this helps,
>
> Tim B.

Also before any heavy operations on it (like ls -l ;^)= ) try "hddparm
-z /dev/<device>" where "<device>" is your drive - e.g. hda, sda, sdb...._"
This forces a re-read of the partition table.
--
Jack