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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:41:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+efB9W6MffPuB1vjB=mcMFDnsEqwZb9AudqTwH2AXWC85Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED6BDF3.7040205@myfairpoint.net>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, sean <tech.junk@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>>
>>
>> I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives
>> works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when
>> attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when
>> attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine.
>>
>> I've never determined what causes it and have sort of decided it's
>> just some weird incompatibility...
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>
> Mark,
>
>        I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect the drives to my
> system. It cured the problem here.
>
>                        Sean
>

That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a
drive case?

I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller
somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical
parameters on the cable just enough that it started working.

I should give that a try here and see if I get so lucky!

Cheers,
Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-30 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-27 20:08 [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount sean
2011-11-27 20:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-27 21:02   ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-30 23:36     ` sean
2011-11-30 23:41       ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2011-12-01 11:56         ` sean

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