On 1/12/06, Stefan Riha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Yesterday I bought an external hard drive (lacie, 250 GB, usb 2.0). > I did > >fdisk /dev/sda1 > and created a single primary partition. > this creates /dev/sda1p1 or something like that. > (could my problem have to do with the fact that I didn't do > >fdisk /dev/sda > instead? I mean, without the 1 at the end of the line?)
Normally, yes, you would want "fdisk /dev/sda". What you did is partition a partition... But if you are only going to use a single partition, you actually don't need to partition it at all. You can simply: # be really damn careful to type this correctly!! dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 printf "w\n" | fdisk /dev/sda mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda mount /dev/sda /mnt/external > and it worked. > Now the problem is that when I copy data from my computers hard drive to > the external drive, the process often hangs up. In KDE's copy process > window appears "stalled". There are some cases when this is normal (like if the drive is working at USB1.1 speeds, writing at 1M/sec. With a lot of ram (like 500M?, then the copy can stall for 7-8 minutes at a time as the buffers get flushed to disk). You could also get this if you use the old/slow USB driver. We need some more details of your kernel configuration. Are you using the ehci and usb-storage drivers? Can you post the dmesg output from when you turn on the drive? > The real big problem is that I cannot remount the ehd again. > When I do > >mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/external > there is no error message, but the process is never terminated. > The cursor jumps to the next line and nothing happens, > except that the green light on the ehd starts burning. > Seems like the Filesystem is destroyed? Could be the journal trying to fix the filesystem...and again, taking forever to do it. > Did I use the right format (ext3)? > What's the command for formating in xfs? The filesystem type isn't important. ext3 is fine. > I use genkernel 2.4 (and don't want to upgrade), is that part of the problem? lspci and dmesg output please. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
