Hi,

Ik hope this is the right pace to put this post...

My Prestige possibly "died" on me. It stopped spinning, Iomega thinks it's a power-supply problem, but the new power-pack has the same: the unit stops spinning, the light is (still) on, the icon disappeared. Occasionally it (successfully) restarts, puts the icon back ans shows the contents in a window.

I had a kerneloops message - the details said something about USB 2.0 and so, so I assume that my real problem is the kernel...

Anyone with similar troubles? This tends to make one feel at loss, I was a ***dows user, if that would have happened there, this would have send my hanging in the curtains.

So, anyone with something similar?

Grtz!

Thor

It could still be a hardware issue, either with the device or your computer. Sometimes, on a particular usb port, the power will drop on the port. Powering down and up might resolve this, or changing to a different USB port.

You would need to provide more exact information about the kernel oops message, but the oops could be caused by a hardware problem.

And it is always worth trying (several) different USB cables.

Tnx both of you, the problem was the drive itself. several cables and adapters were tried, at one time, the drive just didn't want to spin up. After a slight (ever so slight) tap, it spun up...clearly the whole drive.

Had to mail the thing back, under warranty, but still...

I don't know when I'll see him again, I may just have to get me another one,my disks are filling up to the rim...

Maybe a western digital? Or a seagate? Dunno...

Tnx for the show of support, dudes!

Thor