external disk keep mounting

1982NL · 10-31-2008, 05:51 PM

i hope that somebody know what wrong with this
my usb external disk keep all the time mounting
or remounting
when i play music from my external disk it will stop playing because of that remounting
i did not moderate the fstab i just plugin the usb and have this problem
i use opensuse 11

here is my fstab:

Quote:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2D9T4NE-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2D9T4NE-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380021A_3HV4025F-part1 /media/MyMedia/ ext3 defaults 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

the external disk is formated as ext3 btw

jschiwal · 10-31-2008, 06:00 PM

Check the cables. Also monitor the kernel messages. They may indicate what problem is occurring.
e.g. "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages"

1982NL · 11-01-2008, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal

Check the cables. Also monitor the kernel messages. They may indicate what problem is occurring.
e.g. "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages"

yes you was right
i geuss the cable is broken inside i changed to another one and
now it works perfect
thanks anyway

jschiwal · 11-01-2008, 08:22 AM

Your welcome.