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[all variants] external (sata) drive verification on coming back from sleep?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – This post is actually a feature request :idea I boot Xubuntu (12.04) on my laptop from an external SATA drive (the internal one is for coprorate use, Xubuntu is the OS for my private use). Sometimes I send my laptop (Lenovo T420) to sleep Accidentally it can happen that I do not connect the cables (eSATA/USB for power) before trying to wake up the system. It is no surprise that in these cases the operating system does not work and complains about device status change and issues reading inodes, superblocks (I have ext4 file system on the partition with the root file system). Unfortunately even (Hardware)

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Hi all,

I am having a problem with my External SATA HDD.

Summary of Issue My system consists of 4 internal HDDs and 1 external HDD connected via an external HDD enclosure and through my motherboards (on-board) eSATA port. "/" is housed on internal SSD, remaining internal non-SSDs are configured for RAID-5, /home is housed on the external HDD.

I sometimes need to plug a disk into a disk bay. At other times, I have the very weird setup of connecting a SSD using a SATA-eSATA cable on my laptop while pulling power from a desktop.

How can I safely remove the SATA disk from the system?

I recently purchased a 320GB 2.5"external HD. The file system says its owner is root. Is that how it is supposed to be? I thought that I would be the owner, sort of like an USB flash drive.

I want to back up to this HD before upgrading my Laptop and desktop computers.

Should I reformat the external HD to a Linux file system or just leave it as a FAT file system?

Here's the background:

I have two hard drives, one (SATA) with XP on it and another (EIDE) with an NTFS partition and Ubuntu on an ext2 (I think, or ext3, I can never remember which one's right). I also have an external hard drive (EIDE) that's completely NTFS.

Dear all,

I have a large external drive, which I connect to my laptop via a PCMCIA card - the machine is old and does not have USB 2.0 built in, so I use the PCMCIA card for that.

I am thinking of the following setup, and hope you can give me some tips on whether or not that would be a sound solution:

We have all seen dual boot arrangements and such but I am interested in the extra security that a physical separation of hard drives would provide. I am curious why I have never seen switches on (power or data) cables for internal drives.

When I plug an eSATA cable into the external eSATA port that is attached to my motherboard (Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3), the internal SATA drive that my root partition is on is seemingly disconnected (most all programs begin to crash immediately). If I attempt to boot into Ubuntu's recovery mode with the cable plugged in, it fails after trying to find the internal drive by UUID.

Hey gang. I haven't posted on here in quite a while.

My wife's laptop (Dell Vostro V13) had a hard drive cable go bad, and when I tried to recover the data I've run into some snags. It was running a Xubuntu 11.10 install, so I'm assuming EXT4.

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