On Saturday 25 June 2005 19:27, Justin Conover wrote: > I have a LaCie 500GB/firewire drive, and I've been at this thing all > day. > $ dmesg | tail > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense > Additional sense: No additional sense information > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense > Additional sense: No additional sense information > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense > Additional sense: No additional sense information > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense > Additional sense: No additional sense information > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense > Additional sense: No additional sense information > > I assume this is going to suck and explode too. Hmmm - that doesn't look good. its either a firewire transport issue or an issue with the drive itsself in my opinion. What kind of firewire controller do you have? lspci and boot messages would help a lot too. > Anyone have any tips what-so-ever for formating a LARGE slice? This > was supposed to backup my raid5 server but so far, I can't even use it > and it took me long enough to get Fedora to see it. Or I can give up, > hand it to my wife, format it with ntfs and let her use it directly to > backup her photo work. (really really don't want to do that) We're doing it on a regular basis - 400GB to 1TB is the normal size for where I work. No issues. Peter.