[clue] external storage issues

daryl kuchay daryl.kuchay at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 17:27:04 MDT 2011


Did you turn off indexing on the widows side for the drives in question?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Dennis J Perkins <
dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> I don't know if anyone in CLUE has seen these issues, If you have, do you
> have a solution?
>
> Two Seagate FreeAgent drives quit working properly with Windows.  Windows
> could still see them but writing would fail.  Linux couldn't write to them
> either.  I
> reformatted them and put a fileystem back on, and they work again.
>
> I have a couple of USB memory keys that I use with Windows and Linux.  I
> can't write to them from Linux anymore but Windows can.  I can probably
> reformat them
> and be able to write to them again, but I'm trying to find out what
> happened.  The keys that I use only with Windows have never had this
> problem.  I'm guessing
> that Windows did something to those two keys.
>
> The Seagate is automatically mounted so only root can write to it.  My
> Passport, on the other hand, mounts so a normal user can write to it.  I
> might need to dig
> down into the udev configuration to find out what is happening.  Maybe the
> Seagate is being identified as a 3 1/2" internal drive; it's certainly big
> enough for it.
>
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