#52 Clonezilla - Problems Detecting USB Drive...

[SourceBugs]

Hi,

First I would of reported this as a bug, but there is no 'Create Ticket' for the bug section.

I have tried two versions, and have the same problems with them;

clonezilla-live-2.3.1-18-amd64
clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-amd64

I backup and keep my images on a Western Digital My Passport Ultra USB3 2TB drive.

I noticed when I get to the ncurses section, local_image I believe it is, where the console asks you to connect a device and wait 5 seconds for it to be detected, then press enter.

With this hard drive, this does not always work, sometimes I have to restart, or reboot clonezilla and start it over, as many as 3 times to finally get it to detect the hard drive. And then when it doesn't detect it, sometimes this happens, then I start clonezilla with the hard drive already connected.

This is really troublesome having to constantly do this, this always happens, and I don't want to wear out my computer and hardware always having to constantly restart it over several times to get this to work.

I wonder if this is just a problem with these new Western Digital drives, or this happens also with other usb devices?

I hope this can get fixed, this is really needed badly...

thank you

[Steven Shiau]

I believe this is Linux kernel to hardware support issue.
Did you try Clonezilla live 20150217-vivid:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
It comes with newer Linux kernel (3.18) so the results might be different.

Steven.

[SourceBugs]

Hi Steven,

3.18x kernels don't like my hardware, seems to be some USB problems with them I encountered, with occasional lockups/panics on boot. So I stay away from anything 3.18x on my box.

3.14x LTS kernels are working the best for me.

With clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-amd64 today, I had to restart it over like 5 times. :(

Steven, if you could please tell me when a Stable Clonezilla comes out with the 3.19x kernel, I'd appreciate it.

I'm holding out for 3.19x and hopefully it works better on my box as well.