[SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

[Matt Campbell]

Hi Claude,  thanks for your response.

It is a LaCie external USB drive.  The drive seemed to be working properly,
but after removing many small files from it I decided to do a quick format
to clean out the filesystem.  The format failed about half way through due
to 'an unknown error'.  I have not been able to get it to format under
Windows since.  It works fine under Linux, some may ask 'so what is the
problem?'.

The device has external power.  There is no solution yet as I am slammed at
work (working to 4:00am and back to work by 10:00 with 2 hours of commute in
there somewhere) and haven't had a chance to look at it.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Claude Felizardo
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:17 AM
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:56 PM,  <serross at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>  Have you tried to contact the drive maker? I was having trouble with a
USB drive and contacted the maker and they had a solution.
>
>  Stephen

[snip]

What was the nature of the problem with the USB drive?  Was it a
problem with the hard drive itself or the enclosure?  Was it a problem
with the device driver or power supply, ie, it needed external power
vs a powered USB port or what?  Was this on windoze or Linux?  What
was the solution?

claude

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