[ubuntu-in] Problems with Ext USB HD

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

I recently got an 1 TB external USB (connected and powered) Hard Disk.

After getting it I partitioned it from the default 1 to 4 partitions. The
default was ntfs and still is the other 3 partitions are ext4

However on my Thinkpad t60 running Ubuntu 9.10 this external HD powered and
connected by a USB 2 cable loads and then crashes.

Am not sure why ??

at present i have a 500 gig HD on board which has the following partitions
that show up on logging in

/dev/sda7              22G   12G  8.2G  60% /

/dev/sda5              99M   51M   43M  55% /boot
/dev/sda2              20G  2.0G   18G  10% /media/SharedT6N
/dev/sda3             208G  174G   24G  89% /media/MiscT6N
/dev/sda9             165G  114G   43G  73% /home

along with  these 5 partitions a 6th swap (a separate partition) is also
opertional.

 Two additional partitions - the win OS and a second root do not load up.

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am wondering why this HD may be crashing

in an earlier thread there was a mention of a max of 16 partitions that
could operate at once. Now am assuming that these are 16 active partitions
and not those that do not load up.

Load up meaning that those lying dormant (unmounted) till a user calls them
into being or not formatted so not operational.

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any advice

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I am unmounting two more partitions to try the disk again. To see of that
makes a difference

thanks
ram
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