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

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
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> 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.

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.

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.

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