[wellylug] DSE ieee1394 external hard drive operation problems
Damon Lynch
damon at photo.geek.nz
Tue Jan 6 16:43:11 NZDT 2004
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:30, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> Fixed in Mandrake 9.2
>
I was using Mandrake 9.2... and now cooker w/ 2.6 kernel, and before
that 9.2, with the 2.4.23 tmb kernel. All exhibit the same issue. It
may well be hardware related. I replaced the cable that came in the box
with one that came from another box after demonstrating to a DSE
salesperson that the unit didn't work under Windows XP with one of their
PCs. That helped, e.g. errors while formatting the drive from within
windows reduced by 90%. However in GNU/Linux the errors remain rather
more obvious and annoying. I don't know why. Perhaps the windows
driver is more fault tolerant?
I have purchased an entirely seperate cable, and if that doesn't solve
the problems, I'll have to return both.
(BTW, the unit works fine with USB2 under windows, but of course USB2
storage under GNU/Linux is still experimental).
Damon
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