Well looking at the I/O errors when the drive was detected, and farther on in the logs..

None of this looks right to me..


So my question was, is the Drive Working properly in the first place ?
becasue something certainly isn't right..

Have you tried this drive in another system connected directly to an IDE cable

I agree that something is wrong with the drive. I think that weird line is the stored info on the controller like the model number etc.

I have connect this drive (maxtor) in a windows pc and it works good...:s But i couldn't format it..It returns to me error with partition magic..in windows machine..

What was the error?
looks like there could be some wiring/connection issues with the rack too.

This may be totally irrelevant, but with respect to a USB external caddy or enclosure like the Akasa P2, it is essential for the jumper on the IDE drive to be set to Master. I automatically set mine to Slave and when I read the differing instruction in the Akasa manual I queried it. Akasa confimed that Master was correct.
This may well have nothing to do with your problem however.
I also agree with the poster who mentioned that hard drives do not like hot-swapping. It invariably ends with fdisk and fstab problems.

I connect the drive in windows pc without the rack.. When i open the partition magic the format type that partition magic says for this hdd was BAD.. Next i try to format it in ext3 and it returns that this couldn't happen.. I have set the hdd with system files in master and the second in slave... Thats all.. Something is not right .. I ll try to update the bios in a while to see what... will happen.. ..

you could always use dd to Zero out the partition table on that drive and see if that makes a difference..

After the partition table is wiped, you could then try to repartition & reformat the drive

Might want to do this from a Live CD with that being the ONLY hard drive connected in the system..
It would kinda suck to accidentally run this command on your functional hard drive..




Another thing you may want to do is grab the Hard Drive Diagnostics program from teh Manufacturer (Seatools for Seagate/Maxtor Drives, WD and other manufacturers have similar tools) the diagnostic tools are available as a bootable iso you can burn and they will check the drive to see if it's defective or not.

So.. Listen I set the second drive in master mode.. But i connect this time the rack in the cable of DVD-RW drive.. and it works ... When i open the konqueror this is what i see :

So.. I thought to install the gparted and format it to see it as one hdd and no three .. I download the gparted source , i run the .sh file to built it and it returns to me this error :
I search to find this module in repositories but.. no results How to install it ? Oh!! and sorry for my so noobish questions im in the learning way yet !! AND THANKS A LOT FOR ALL YOUR ANSWERS GUYZ

Any ideas ? :S

Hmm... I do all these i say before and now in the dmesg output give me this :
Something is wrong here again.. Maybe the fat format ? Do you have any ideas ?