Re: [opensuse] Re: Large disks in Opensuse 11

Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:

Per Jessen wrote:

Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
Which errors? Did it just hang? How do you know that the disk
became inaccessible?

I got this:

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linux-k9na:/home/siberia # fdisk /dev/sdc

Unable to open /dev/sdc
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It would have been nice to see the output from dmesg right after
this, but if fdisk cannot access the disk, you have a hardware
problem.

Here is the most recent dmesg:

http://www.coldsiberia.net/text/dmesg_07052009.txt

This one doesn't seems to show the USB device being connected/discovered
at all - there's certainly no mention of a disk drive with SCSI
emulation etc.

Can I suggest the following:

disconnect USB drive
reboot system
connect USB drive, do a dmesg and post the output on coldsiberia
try 'fdisk /dev/sdX' where X is the driver letter assigned as per dmesg
output.
Assuming this fails, do a dmesg and post the output on coldsiberia, but
separately. (if it doesn't fail, you have some sort of intermittent
problem, again indicative of a hardware issue).


/Per

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