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Strange device nodes

I have been having bizarre issues. It started when I decided to install Scientific Linux Fermi 6.3 and dual boot it. First I was going to burn it to usb, but that was taking too long and I'm ...
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Only 746.52 GB of 3TB drive is seen when accessed via USB enclosure. Works fine internally

I have a Mediasonic Smart Drive SuperSpeed 3.5" SATA HDD External Enclosure - USB 3.0 [HD6-SU3-BK]. It has the VIA VL700 - Super-Speed USB 3.0 to SATA controller which is supposed to support 3TB ...
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How to workaround or diagnose a kernel panic when “safely removing” external hdd?

I'm experiencing an issue when using the "Safely Remove" option to remove my 1TB external HDD from the Unity Launcher. Not every time, but occasionally my screen will go black and display LARGE ...
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`power/persist` file not found in USB device sysfs directory [closed]

The file /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/usb/persist.txt.gz mentions that the USB-persist capability can be enabled for a given USB device by writing 1 to the file persist in that device's directory in ...