Hard drive works in windows, not ubuntu


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Well, i have a hard drive that i pulled out of a maxtor enclosure, and its branded a seagate. Its SATA. Its mounts and works fine in windows, but causes ubuntu to hang on boot about 90% of the time. If i let it just hang, eventually errors come up and then i have to restart. The hard drive passed maxtors hard drive tests, both the short and the long one. I have tried zero filling it and reformatting it. My hardware is listed in my signature. Anyone have any ideas why ubuntu would dislike this drive?

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Well, i have a hard drive that i pulled out of a maxtor enclosure, and its branded a seagate. Its SATA. Its mounts and works fine in windows, but causes ubuntu to hang on boot about 90% of the time. If i let it just hang, eventually errors come up and then i have to restart. The hard drive passed maxtors hard drive tests, both the short and the long one. I have tried zero filling it and reformatting it. My hardware is listed in my signature. Anyone have any ideas why ubuntu would dislike this drive?

I had problems with a Seagate USB 2.0 250Gb drive where it would unmount itself under Ubuntu, but worked fine under Windows. I tried different formats and I'd get the same problem. Maybe Ubuntu doesn't support Seagate that well?

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Seagate seems to have issues with supporting non-Windows OSes

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=605434

That thread has a posted fix for the USB problem (drive switches modes after waking up from standby).

For the drive that doesn't seem to behave booting, if you can get a boot (or just boot the Ubuntu CD as a LiveCD) and do a

sudo hdparm -iv /dev/sda (assuming it is sda that is the problem drive - change it to sdb or other appropriate ID for your box)

it might help someone that knows a bit more about drive parameters in Linux than I do...

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justin@justins:~$ sudo hdparm -iv /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for justin:

/dev/sdc:
 IO_support	=  0 (default 16-bit)
 readonly	  =  0 (off)
 readahead	 = 256 (on)
 geometry	  = 60801/255/63, sectors = 976773168, start = 0

 Model=ST3500630AS							 , FwRev=3.AFM   , SerialNo=			6QG14LEV
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7

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