
When the drive worked that first time, and its files were displayed in pcmanfm, Knoppix is a slightly customised version of Debian. Should I look for another usb hdd that specifically says it works with Linux? To get it working? I really like the neat design of the drive and would very much like to keep it and get it working.

When I repeated the dmesg command): sd 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline deviceĬould you tell me why the drive isn't working in Linux, and what I need to do Gives the following message continuously (it gave the same continuous message When I plug the drive in BEFORE booting, the system mounts the drive, and dmesg When it's not mounted, the dmesg command says sd 8:0:0:0: sense urb submission failureĪnd the message repeats continuously (with different "" nos.) and repeatsĪcross subsequent dmesgs and across logging out and in. When I plug it in, sometimes it gets mounted by the system (even if theĪutomount dialogue doesn't appear), and sometimes it doesn't get mounted. Says something like "Do you want to open this device in file manager".īut since then, each time I plug it in, it doesn't work (it works OK in Windowsħ). By automount, I mean when the small window appears and It automounted, and its files were displayed in the

So far, the Seagate drive has only worked once, when I first plugged it in* (usbģ slot). My system is Live Knoppix 7.0.2 installed on hard drive, with kernel 3.3.7. Requirements: Windows 7 or 8" but I assume it should work with Linux (I really like the neat design of the drive). With USB 3 connection, formatted as ntfs. I've just bought a Seagate 2Tb "expansion portable drive", model STEA2000400,
