[GRLUG] Interesting problem with 2.5" backup drive

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:05:57PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Ordered a couple Toshiba 2.5" backup drives as my 3 1/2" one is full, 
> .. and, lo-and-behold, it will not mount on a Linux system!
> 
> I hung it on a Windoze system & deleted the partition, then recreated 
> to ensure that any autoplay nonsense is gone, and it mounts fine on 
> XP; whenever I put it on a known good OpenSuSE 11.1 machine, however, 
> it just sits there & resets ever few seconds.

Is it in a USB enclosure?

> Has anyone, per chance, seen behaviour like this? I have seen disks 
> with Windoze specific backup software, but never a disk that refuses 
> to *mount* on a Linux system.

Does fdisk recognize the partition(s)?
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