Re: External USB hard drive problems...

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 10/11/03 

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:23:05 GMT

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:45:34 +1000, Greg typed:

> I am trying to use an external IDE HD plugged into a USB port for backups.
> I have chosen a WD 120Gb and RH9 recognises it as /dev/sda1
>
> I do fdisk and create the 120Gb partition OK, but when I do a:
>
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
>
> it creates the first 91 inode tables almost instantly and then it slows
> down to a crawl, doing 1 every couple of minutes. Then it will suddenly
> instantly do 5 or 10 and then slow down to a crawl again. It finally
> completes the 895 in about three quarters of an hour:

<snip>

> Does anyone have ANY IDEA what is going on????

Yes, it's a USB configuration problem, check what your configuration is
and what it should be;

$ lspci -v

$ cat /proc/modules 

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