Re: [gentoo-user] sdhc card on eeepc701 running gentoo

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Érico Porto wrote:
> it is a 16GB class 10 Transcend, but the eeepc uses a usb card reader 
> inside of it - no mmc I think.
>
> Actually, the first thing I tried to do with it was to format to ext2, 
> and then the formating proccess frozed in the middle of it.. I've 
> tried to load it in a windows pc after but couldn't read, and when I 
> tried to format, everything frozed - but it was a public computer, so 
> I don't know if it ever had a working card reader.
>
> I've booted ubuntu in the eeepc now, and the card is shown in 
> /dev/sdc1, but I can't edit it using disk utility - it gives me error 
> calling fsync(2), on:/dev/sdc: input/output error. But on ubuntu I 
> don't see no dmesg error msgs like the ones I see on gentoo just by 
> plugin it on the port.
>
> Is there any disk error checking utility in gentoo or ubuntu?
>
>
> Érico V. Porto
>
>

This may help.  smartmontools  I'm not sure what sort of testing can be 
done on those if any.

Dale

:-)  :-)


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