Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:33:13 -0800 schrieb walt <w41...@gmail.com>: > On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > <mega-snip> > > > 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.
That's what I hope. > 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. Yeah, if its anything like the uas module, it'll have had many quirks added to it in a short amount of time. > 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. That'll be annoyingly time consuming, but I suppose you're right. > I'm sure you don't have a Windows machine yourself, so you will need to make > friends with somebody who does ;) As a matter of fact, my brother has one ;) . Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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