Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I have an external 160 gigs usb hard drive, and I can't write to
> it. With 'tail -f /var/log/kern.log' I discovered that it is attached
> to /dev/sde1
> 
> Nov  5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
> Nov  5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Nov  5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 9
> Nov  5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel:   Vendor: WDC WD16  Model: 00BB-00GUC0       Rev:  0 0
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel:  sde: sde1
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
> Nov  5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.

Writing to NTFS partitions is fraught with risk.  If you need to
share data with MSFT systems, reformat the disk as FAT32.

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