[wellylug] DSE ieee1394 external hard drive operation problems

Jonathan Harker jharker at massey.ac.nz
Wed Jan 7 09:39:54 NZDT 2004


Damon Lynch wrote:
> 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?  

Ah... my bad. I was experiencing similar problems in Mandrake 9.1 with a 
firewire/USB 2 combo external HD box like yours, which fixed itself when I 
upgraded to 9.2 - I assumed with kernel 2.4.22 you were using 9.1

I agree, sounds rather like dodgy hardware somewhere.

Cheers,
J





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