Rajmadhan Ekambaram wrote:

Hi, I bought a new hard drive and connected it to my laptop through usb interface. suse is detecting the new hard drive and identifying it as USB mass storage, but it is not able to mount the device. I ran the dmesg command and captured the error messages and is in the attached file. I noticed this following error in the error message: "unable to read partition table". I haven't faced any problems with this hard drive in Windows vista. Initially i partitioned this hard drive in windows and then tried using it in linux. since it is giving problems i thought there would be problems with the formatting, so i deleted the partitions in windows and tried using it again as a new device. But it is of no use, the same error persists. Anyone have any idea about this error. Please help me fix this problem.

I don't think this is amd64 specific - looks like the external device is too slow. Try connecting via a hub (which will slow down the link), that has cured similar problems for me, mainly on x86 platforms though. Seeing as the other OS doesn't seem to show this problem, there may be an underlying software problem here - anyone care to comment? -- Cheers, Richard (MQ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org