Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110
I was OP on the recent thread. Use my name in search. Also look
for mention of U3. U3 is an emerging software technology for making
part of a hard disk appear to be a CD. If you want to get rid of
this feature you must download some software from WD site. They
don't have support for Linux, but this software is available in
both Windows and Mac versions. I hesitate to offer specific advice.
There are so many gotchas, and so many ways around the gotchas that
depend on your specific situation.
Keep posting. I hope I can help, I surely will try.
On 20100421_032426, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone !
>
> I had 3 external usb disks for savings. None of them refused to
> operate under Debian Linux, indeed they worked 'out of the box', even
> though Linux was not mentioned as a compatible system in the notices.
>
> Today, since my above mentioned drives have no more space available,
> I have purchased another such device. It is a 'My Book 1110' from
> Western Digitals. It is supposed to manage 1 TB of data. But, so far,
> I have not been able to get it to work on my Linux. If I plug it in
> to an usb slot, GNOME displays a message saying that it can't mount
> the device, since it is of an unknown filesystem. This being stated,
> I can still see some files and directory, the PDF manual for
> instance, is available. But what appears is small in size, far from 1
> TB, and it is R/O (read only). It mounts on /dev/sr0.
>
> #cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> shows that it appears on 3 devices :
>
> scsi2, ch0, id0, lun0 => My Book 1110
> scsi2, ch0, id0, lun1 => virtual CD 1110
> scsi2, ch0, id0, lun2 => SES device
>
> 'df' gives this, besides the usual lines :
>
> /dev/sr0 Media/WD Smartware 629128k occupied, 0k free
>
> #mkfs /dev/sr0 says that the device is R/O
>
> #fdisk says : "sector size 2048 (not 512). Unable to write /dev/sr0 -
> will not be able to write the partition table
>
> Could someone suggest something to try, in an attempt to get that
> system to be ext2 formated and to operate under my Linux ?
>
>
>
>
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