Nathan Widmyer wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian sarge on a hard drive in a USB enclosure. > I got the 110MB sarge image. Which version? > I can boot with either 2.4 or 2.6 > kernel and after I partition the hard drive and when it starts to > write the base-install data, the busy light on the drive enclosure > stays on continuously, even after my laptop is powered down. I get a > dbootstrap error, and in a console, it says it can't find the USB > device file. If I go back through the setup, the USB hard drive is > not shown anywhere to install to. To resume normal operation I have > to turn the enclosure off, wait an appropriate amount of time, then > turn it back on then it's okay. > > The only non-standard thing I do is add the option > "hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false" because if not, when PCMCIA is loaded, > it locks up my laptop and I need to remove the AC adapter and battery > before it will budge. > > The enclosure is a Hotway HD2-U2FW Firewire 400/USB 2.0 enclosure > arouund a Maxtor 80GB hard drive. The enclosure has had 0 problems in > Windows, so it sounds like something is fishy with the USB HDD > drivers. Yes, it sounds like large data transfers are hosing the drive.. -- see shy jo
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