[NCLUG] USB HD

[William Dan Terry]

Tried this question on the USB-USERS list, but got no response. Any USB
people here?

I got an external case for an 80 GB notebook HD I had. It seemed that I
was successful in installing basic pieces to get it to run (partition
via sfdisk and mkfs.ext3). The kernel recognizes it when I plug it in
(via sfdisk -l or cdrecord --scanbus). I manually mount it and had no
trouble re-partitioning it from the WinXP disk it was to a single
partition EXT3. I made the file system. I can read and write to it, but
it then dies for no apparent reason.

/var/log/messages says: (I'm not sure that the first 3 entries below are
for the
ext hd or not)

Mar 16 13:14:01 macaw kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on
sd(8,33), internal journal
Mar 16 13:14:01 macaw kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Mar 16 13:14:01 macaw kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered
data mode.
Mar 16 13:22:52 macaw kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame#
775
Mar 16 13:23:58 macaw kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame#
1250
Mar 16 13:25:10 macaw kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame#
1583
Mar 16 13:26:21 macaw kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame#
952
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel: scsi: device set offline - not ready or
command retry failed after bus reset: host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0
lun 0 return code = 50000
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67002456
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67002464
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67002696
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67002936
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67003176
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67003416
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67003568
Mar 16 13:27:27 macaw kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 67003808
...

I'm running Fedora on an HP Visualize X550 (scsi hds).

Any ideas are welcome.

TIA, William


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