On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxx am.net> wrote: > Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format, since > ntfs > should not be a problem if you have ntfs-3g installed? > gparted isn't seeing anything near as I can tell, hence the request for dmesg info... sounds like some background system work is happening but is getting caught up somewhere. I agree with fat16/32 limitations especially since the OP is archiving images which can get rather large. Formatting just seemed easiest as a way to eliminate some possibilities because of fat fs wide acceptance. If it works, then it was a file system issue and if not then most likely a deeper hardware issue. If the former then a matter of installing support for the desired fs or format to one that best suits OP's needs. I am not thinking the latter because a couple articles where the posting OPs' stated they plugged in the drive and the system recognized it including Eddie above; but, technologies change and WD firmware may be conflicting with the OP's system since the are just purchased. At this point it is just conjecture until we get a better picture. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred, The drive is a 3T drive Here is the end of dmesg : [22032.142905] usb 8-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=259d [22032.142909] usb 8-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [22032.142912] usb 8-1.3: Product: My Passport 259D [22032.142914] usb 8-1.3: Manufacturer: Western Digital [22032.142916] usb 8-1.3: SerialNumber: 575832314437363658383146 [22032.144659] usb-storage 8-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [22032.145363] scsi host12: usb-storage 8-1.3:1.0 [22033.148475] scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 259D 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [22033.149280] scsi 12:0:0:1: Enclosure WD SES Device 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [22033.162543] sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [22033.163005] ses 12:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device [22033.163868] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Spinning up disk... [22033.165424] ses 12:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 13 [22034.163430] ....................................... [22106.673511] usb 8-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [22108.037081] ........................not responding... [22133.734712] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). [22133.735030] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] 5860466688 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.73 TiB) [22133.735038] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] 4096-byte physical blocks [22133.735604] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off [22133.735608] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 53 00 10 08 [22133.736133] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found [22133.736137] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through [22133.737857] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Spinning up disk... [22134.737714] ....................................................................... ...................not responding... [22233.896939] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
