I have an external hard drive that is formatted to fat32 that literally takes hours for Ubuntu to recognize is there any way to speed this up?
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I have an external hard drive that is formatted to fat32 that literally takes hours for Ubuntu to recognize is there any way to speed this up?
Could be that the drive is failing.
Look at System>Admin>Disk Utility, select your USB drive and see if "Smart Data" tells you anything useful.
Does it take as long when plugged into another PC?
No. I have a windows 7 laptop that I plug it into quite often and takes no more than 3 seconds for autoplay to pop up and everything works fine.
could there be some kind of driver/kernel i need to install for large usb disks to work?
I use smaller (4gb) flash drives with it all the time.
It should work without any drivers or kernel mods.
I have a 1TB USB drive that came with FAT32 and it worked fine.
However there is a 4GB file size limit with FAT32 so I formated it to NTFS so that I could store DVDs on it.
Maybe someone else can give advice. When you are in Win7 can you run chkdsk on it?
Maybe it just has a corrupt file that confuses Linux.
OK thanks i'll try that