Don't know if it would make a difference, but are you plugging it into a USB3 port? My lab got new machines about a year and half ago, and I knew machines had USB 3 ports, so I hooked up a 1.5TB usb disk, and got very slow results. Turned out that only 2 of the 6 USB ports are USB 3, others are only USB 2. Don't know if there would be a difference in the size of disk supported by USB 2 versus USB 3. On 30 Oct 2016 at 15:15, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Subject: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem From: "Gregory P. Ennis" <PoMec@xxxxxxxxx> To: Fedora Users List <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:15:26 -0500 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Everyone, > > I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped > to use for archive files for some digital images. > > Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google > searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10 > system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried to > connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount > it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I > plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is > plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution to > completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the > drive is plugged in a usb port. > > Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives? > > Thanks for you help!!!! > > Greg Ennis > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 118093151.288695 ROSETTA 51279764.747103 | SETI 94372974.067749 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx