Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:33:13 -0800
schrieb walt <w41ter@gmail.com>:

> On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> <mega-snip>
> 
> > What happens is that when I (cold) boot my desktop, my external Toshiba 3TB
> > drive (which is always connected via USB3) is detected, but cannot mount.  It
> > *does* work once I unplug the USB3 plug and plug it back in.
> 
> I once hated replies containing the question "Does it work under Windows?" but
> a bit of experience with usb3 external drives has made me rethink the matter.
> 
> Here's my thinking:  if the usb3 drive works correctly with Windows but not
> with linux, the problem is software -- i.e. the device driver.

That's what I hope.

> The xhci driver is under heavy development because usb3 is still new tech, and
> I've found and reported a few bugs in the last year or so and they got fixed.

Yeah, if its anything like the uas module, it'll have had many quirks added to
it in a short amount of time.

> If your Toshiba drive has no partitions formatted in an M$ filesystem, you
> could use gparted to make some free space on the drive and then create and
> format a new M$-readable partition just for testing purposes.

That'll be annoyingly time consuming, but I suppose you're right.

> I'm sure you don't have a Windows machine yourself, so you will need to make
> friends with somebody who does ;)

As a matter of fact, my brother has one ;) .

Greetings
-- 
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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