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Re: Lenny and 2TB USB drive



On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:36:11 -0600, John Salmon wrote:

> I'm still living comfortably in Lenny-land. I tried to attach a 2 TB USB
> drive to both of my Linux systems with no success. The drive formats to
> ext3 format using mke2fs with no problem, but won't mount for use. The
> same procedure works fine with 1 IB drives on either system. I assume
> this is a limitation with the installed USB drivers. Is this something
> that will be taken care of in the near future? I wanted to use the 2 TB
> drive as backup for my 1 TB drives, plus backup to upgrade from Lenny.

Hum... did you create the partition table before formatting?

BTW, what does "dmesg" say when you connect the drive?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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