F11 and external hard drives

[Paul Erickson]

I am trying to get an external hard-drive to work with my F-11 box.

I am using a Dynex enclosure with a Western Digital 500g hard-drive.
Using the same enclosure with a smaller Seagate drive works just fine.

I know the disk is working ok, as I have put an ext3 file system on it 
in another machine.

When I plug it into the USB port, I get the following tail results:


Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sdc: sdc1 < sdc5 >
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
Aug 14 15:08:25 samba3 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Aug 14 15:08:25 samba3 kernel: EXT3 FS on sdc5, internal journal
Aug 14 15:08:25 samba3 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered 
data mode.
Aug 14 15:33:34 samba3 ntpd[1605]: synchronized to 66.96.30.35, stratum 2
Aug 14 16:27:41 samba3 kernel: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 14

I get the following tail results with another external hard-drive which 
works fine:


Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate 
FreeAgent Go 102D PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte 
hardware sectors: (500 GB/465 GiB)
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte 
hardware sectors: (500 GB/465 GiB)
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sdc: sdc1 < sdc5 >
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
Aug 14 15:04:34 samba3 kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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