From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSJez-0001Eg-48 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 03:03:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D6D3E092F for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 03:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C6CE06C5 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 02:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 82lx1j0081HpZEsA72p6gA; Thu, 10 May 2012 02:49:06 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 82p41j00X0JMh7c8a2p5s5; Thu, 10 May 2012 02:49:05 +0000 Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 22:49:00 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Message-Id: <20120509224900.ebe16622.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20120507093458.a9840e1f.frank.peters@comcast.net> References: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4FA7A94E.7010009@digital-trauma.de> <20120507093458.a9840e1f.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.4 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5271ccb0-975b-455b-9476-3b1d1f63cd9f X-Archives-Hash: f4b1f346b25cdc2c90d1bfbd65a1fca6 On Mon, 7 May 2012 09:34:58 -0400 Frank Peters wrote: > > The Seagate drive has already been returned to the seller. > I am expecting a Western Digital Elements 2TB USB HDD to > arrive in a few days. If this new drive also fails then I > will post more information. > I just want to follow up on my previous posts for the sake of anyone who may be interested. The Western Digital Elements 2TB USB HDD arrived and it works with Linux right out of the box. The extra modules needed are sg and usb-storage, assuming that all the usb core stuff is built into the kernel. The drive is pre-formatted with a ntfs filesystem, but using cfdisk I re-partitioned the drive and formatted the new partitions with ext3. Everything works nicely. This WD drive is USB 2.0, whereas the non-functional Seagate was USB 3.0. Whether or not this can explain the problem I cannot say. Thanks again to all who responded. Frank Peters