** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-utils
When connecting a Western Digital External USB drive only the first
partition of three is mounted after much effort from the system. The
nautilus window then pops up, and browsing seems to work, although very
slowly. After closing the window (and all other open nautilus windows)
it becomes impossible to start up again. Unplugging the drive causes all
previously request actions ot be performed (so if you clicked "Computer"
three times in the Places menu then you'll suddenly have three windows
open to "Computer").
Note that below the drive is listed as sdb, yet entering -$ sudo fdisk
-l only returns the host drive (this is a Wubi install):
Disk /dev/sda: 119.8 GB, 119834104320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14569 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1e6c7f98
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14569 117025461 7 HPFS/NTFS
On the external drive itself two partitions (the first and last) are in
NTFS and one is in FAT32. Similar hangs are happening when I try to
mount it in Windows, so there could be a problem with the drive itself.
I have tried it on two USB ports out of four, and it sometimes works on
one of them (which I think again suggests a problem with the drive
itself rather than the computer or the OS).
The computer in question is a Toshiba Satellite M55-S351. Note that the
drive shows activity while it is plugged in and continues to do so if
unplugged.
Jun 8 01:37:22 rayad-laptop kernel: [ 3237.921502] usb 5-5: reset high speed
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Jun 8 01:37:22 rayad-laptop kernel: [ 3238.070590] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result:
hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
Jun 8 01:37:22 rayad-laptop kernel: [ 3238.070603] end_request: I/O error,
dev sdb, sector 58636011
Jun 8 01:37:22 rayad-laptop kernel: [ 3238.185441] usb 5-5: reset high speed
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Jun 8 01:37:22 rayad-laptop kernel: [ 3238.334558] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result:
hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
And (this line come up after unplugging the drive)
Jun 8 01:40:54 rayad-laptop kernel: [ 3491.966382] lost page write due to
I/O error on sdb2
Ubuntu 8.04
Good night all!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 8 01:26:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-log
Package: gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686
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+ Edit: I'm now pretty sure that the problem is with the hard drive because of
similar behaviour in Windows. Nonetheless, it would be nice if the system
handled this a little better.
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First partition of three is mounted, USB drive reset every few minutes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238292
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