[mythtv-users] USB Harddrives

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 21:09:20 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> How did you label the drive partition?
> >
> > when i formated it with gparted
> >
> >
> >>
> >> How did you actually mount it?
> >
> >
> > in fstab:
> > LABEL=d3               /tv/d3                   ext3    defaults        0
> 0
> > then moutn /tv/d3
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdj: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x8d399bc0
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdj1               1       60801   488384001   83  Linux
> >
> > better?
> >
> > Mitchell
>
> Its not one of those drives that keeps switching itself off to save
> power is it? There was one well known manufacturer's product a few
> months back that was having problems with linux because of this
> "feature". Cannot recall the drive/manufacturer involved.
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

could be its a WD iBook.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20080720/53ebdf12/attachment.htm 


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list