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 1RVto6-00068X-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:43:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FBAB21C04E; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D26621C06F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm12 with SMTP id m12so1384455yen.40 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:41:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i/59qGF+DOHL06yluQK4ykhrPLnSNnLhqHTzFRDkGz4=; b=JAsJeCUeOSidbVkmNN7HqdWgLoBYGsQjO3StvdykUKTEdQCqutQ6Gpix8+E2R20hdi hfNEmuJSEOgEszcG5Lyj+TwLBruXImh+padRXgMy2y0df4FaCAOptD6b6F5/dW2b9+Qq HEaIBFdm4JTnXQHYwo7R5SCKJcGf3Ypx5ap7I= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.92.97 with SMTP id cl1mr918821obb.21.1322696517677; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:41:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.113.10 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:41:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4ED6BDF3.7040205@myfairpoint.net> References: <4ED298AA.2000600@myfairpoint.net> <20111127225234.755b4597@rohan.example.com> <4ED6BDF3.7040205@myfairpoint.net> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:41:57 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 958d170f-d6be-49f5-9221-8649e8693a56 X-Archives-Hash: 691fcdc9fa0d46ae36710a01df15725a On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, sean 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, > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect= the drives to my > system. It cured the problem here. > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0Sean > 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