Hi, I hope someone can help me out of this one... I plugged my brand new WD Passport Drive [http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=364] on my F8 box, and it appeared just fine (I had done this before -- I had even reformatted the partition with NTFS with Windows XP). I wanted to remove the single 250G NTFS partition and create two smaller ones, and reformat them as ext3 and HFS for my girlfriend's MacBook. GParted identified the device just fine, and I had just deleted the original partition and created two smaller ones (110G and 120G), unformatted. When I hit the "apply changes" button, GParted told me it could not see the device anymore. Indeed, it couldn't be seen anywhere. The disk was not mounted anymore, and did not appear as a device on GNOME's nautilus. Here's what's on /var/log/messages, showing what was going on right before it all went to hell: Jan 19 12:19:37 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Jan 19 12:19:37 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jan 19 12:19:37 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jan 19 12:19:37 localhost kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jan 19 12:19:37 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage Jan 19 12:19:37 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 2500BEA External 1.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sdb: sdb1 Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost ntfs-3g[9802]: Version 1.1120 Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost ntfs-3g[9802]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "Backups", NTFS 3.1) Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost ntfs-3g[9802]: Cmdline options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=en_US.UTF-8 Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost ntfs-3g[9802]: Mount options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,silent,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096 Jan 19 12:19:42 localhost hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500 I umounted the device: Jan 19 12:26:00 localhost ntfs-3g[9802]: Unmounting /dev/sdb1 (Backups) Jan 19 12:26:00 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jan 19 12:26:00 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Here's when I think it all went wrong: Jan 19 12:28:48 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: USB disconnect, address 2 Why's that? Timeout??! After that, this is what happens when I try to reconnect the device: Jan 19 12:40:23 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Jan 19 12:40:23 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:24 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:24 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Jan 19 12:40:24 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:24 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:24 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 Jan 19 12:40:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device not accepting address 4, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 Jan 19 12:40:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:35 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 Jan 19 12:40:35 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:35 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:35 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7 Jan 19 12:40:36 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:36 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:36 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8 Jan 19 12:40:36 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71 Jan 19 12:40:36 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9 Jan 19 12:40:37 localhost kernel: usb 7-1: device not accepting address 9, error -71 It just goes on and on and on... =/ Neither Linux, nor WinXP nor OSX 10.4 recognize the device any longer. Please, please, please, someone tells me this can be fixed ={ Any advice will be welcome. TIA Andre
