Everyone, Thank you all for your help. I had to put my problem on hold until I had time to digest all you advice. I almost got a sledge hammer out, but restrained myself. The problem turned out to be related to the using the front usb ports instead of the usb ports on the back of the machine as well as the cable I was using. Once I had a good cable and used the ports on the back of the machine (directly into the mother board), everything worked automatically and perfect. Thanks again for all of your help !!!!! Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx g> 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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
