Connecting USB Harddrive fails...

[breise]

Hi everyone, i just tried to connect my USB Harddrive to my freshly installed Sabayon Linux... But it just throws up these dmesg messages:

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[  316.481520] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
[  316.482328] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  316.482332] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[  316.482334] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  316.483272] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
[  316.484102] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  316.484106] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[  316.484109] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  316.484111]  sdb: sdb1
[  316.501985] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[  316.502053] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  336.866154] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
[  336.866165] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 41163
[  336.866189] FAT: FAT read failed (blocknr 41100)
[  336.866896] usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, address 9
[  336.868259] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 152636
[  336.868264] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
[  336.868270] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 152637
[  336.868274] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
[  336.868279] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 152638
[  336.868284] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
[  336.868288] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 152639
[  336.868293] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
[  336.868300] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 152641
[  336.868304] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
[  336.875737] FAT: FAT read failed (blocknr 128)
[  336.883633] FAT: FAT read failed (blocknr 32)
[  336.886663] scsi 4:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[  336.886718] FAT: FAT read failed (blocknr 32)
[  336.897227] scsi 4:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[  336.897322] FAT: FAT read failed (blocknr 32)


Any idea how i can solve this?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Strange, SL seems to be having trouble reading a specific block/sector on the USB HDD. Maybe it's simply a bad block on the HDD? Does the USB HDD work OK with other PCs, or is this the first time you've used it? If there is nothing important on the USB HDD, you could try reformatting it (using GParted under SL, or by connecting it to e.g. a Windows PC). If you want to use it in future with Windows PCs as well as Linux PCs then you could re-format it as FAT32 or NTFS, but if you are only going to use it with Linux then you could format it as ext3.

[breise]

Thanks for your help, but i'm not a newbie Anyway, it worked perfectly under Ubuntu and maybe i will try to compile a new kernel now...