[PLUG] Shared Windows and Linux USB Disk

Daniel Herrington dherrington at robertmarktech.com
Fri Dec 4 23:00:56 UTC 2009


I have a preference question. I bought a Western Digital 280 gig disk and
put vmware images on it for my team at work. I use Ubuntu as my main OS
though, and most everyone else uses Windows. I left the original format as
NTFS. The other day the cat graciously pulled the power plug on my desktop
and I had to plug the usb drive in about five or six times before it
automounted in Ubuntu. During each attempted mount I got to see these in
dmesg:


[1881626.372625] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[1881626.664589] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[1881626.944548] usb 1-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 7
[1881627.352609] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 7, error -62
[1881627.528547] usb 1-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 7
[1881627.936543] usb 1-5: device not accepting address 7, error -62
[1881627.938400] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 7
[1881628.120569] usb 1-5: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 8
[1881628.300720] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -62

I suspect it's probably some special feature of NTFS and the usb disk not
getting unmounted properly, as I've seen this before with other NTFS USB
disks.

I'd like to reformat the drive to a better FS, but I can't force all the
Windows guys to have to get special software just to read the disk. Does
windows only read FAT32 and NTFS? Is there a better shared FS to format the
drive as that eliminates this problem?

thanks,
-- 
Daniel B. Herrington
Director of Field Services
Robert Mark Technologies
dherrington at robertmarktechnologies.com
o: 651-769-2574
m: 503-358-8575



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