new external drive

[Stephen Partington]

Before you yank the drive from the enclosure see about using the
manufacturer software to verify the disk.

On Nov 24, 2016 6:14 PM, "Michael Butash" <mike at butash.net> wrote:

> I'd say you have a bad unit.  Try pulling the drive out of it and
> connecting it direct to a sata bus and see if that works to get a response
> to the bus.  Either the drive, or the usb converter chip could be dead.
>
> I began to find at one point years ago my chances of buying those cheap
> external enclosure "backup drives" meant more than likely they would be
> doa, die soon, or otherwise cause me grief (like causing systems not to
> post with them connected) indicating some sort of electrical short.  More
> often than not, usb drives are crap.
>
> What I have found is vendors sell _garbage_ drives as "usb", most have
> signfiicantly lower warranties (6mo-1yr vs 3-5yr) and mtbf rates.  This
> means you're usually buying the stuff that doesn't otherwise cut muster for
> desktop or enterprise use.
>
> More simply: Expect they will die, and fast.
>
> What I do here is buy a normal desktop drive with a good  warranty, get an
> enclosure myself, put it together myself, and run them this way.  I rarely
> lose a disk, much better quality over all.
> -mb
>
>
> On 11/24/2016 12:03 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>
> I got a problem. This new drive won't format. Linux saw it when I first
> plugged it in. I then tried copying some files to it which resulted in an
> error appearing after 5-10 minutes telling me to open windows and run
> 'chkdsk \f' on the device. Then I plugged it into windows10 and couldn't
> figure out how to open a terminal so I decided to format it. But it
> wouldn't format. When I attempt to it flashes twice a second for a little
> then a long flash then again quickly. So I figured I would attempt the
> format with Linux but Linux doesn't see the drive now so no formatting with
> it. Can someone help?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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