From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47C4138CA3 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 630D2E0958; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B8FDE0946 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YU4YJ-0007mn-OA for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 03:33:19 +0100 Received: from 64.69.39.86 ([64.69.39.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 03:33:19 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 64.69.39.86 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 03:33:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:33:13 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20150306204428.4432f883@marcec.fritz.box> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.69.39.86 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20150306204428.4432f883@marcec.fritz.box> X-Archives-Salt: e39cc7e6-61cc-4820-9c7e-034e9d4a32f5 X-Archives-Hash: 86fec45c703cb122c1d83c78f1b48d20 On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > 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 ;)