Cant boot if 2nd hard drive is installed Pogo E02

[chris5h]

So I have a 2TB external and a 4GB flash drive with Arch installed. If I reboot it with the external installed it will not completely boot up. This is the netcal log I pull:

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D:\Users\Chris\Downloads\nc111nt_rodneybeede>nc -l -u -p 6666

U-Boot 2011.12 (Feb 20 2012 - 21:21:59)
Pogoplug E02
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 4.4.1
GNU ld (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-67) 2.19.51.20090709
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 10 ^C
D:\Users\Chris\Downloads\nc111nt_rodneybeede>nc -l -u -p 6666
0
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... EHCI timed out on TD - token=0x10008d
80
2 Storage Device(s) found
Loading file "/rescueme" from usb device 0:1 (usbda1)
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And it just hangs there indefinitely. I tried doing this fix: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5034
And this fix just doesnt seem to apply anymore: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4576&start=10

I had this configured before with a flash drive and this HDD so I know it works, I just dont know what is different this time.

Thanks everyone.
And it did not work

[chris5h]

I fixed this by formatting the drive NTFS and installing NTFS-3G
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G

[moonman]

What fs was it before? You do know ntfs-eg will be slow, right? Though theres is a thread in the forum that describes how to speed it up

[chris5h]

ext3. It seems to be pretty fast. When transferring files via Samba. I get 19-20mb/s when transferring a couple of GB size ISO . I might be slower than what it was before, but if so I havent noticed.

I did find the thread you mentioned:
viewtopic.php?f=53&t=5001&p=29498&hilit=ntfs+speed#p29498

Which simply links to a blog post:
http://obihoernchen.net/wordpress/877/s ... rch-linux/

And I followed the suggestion, and it did seem to net me about a 2-5% transfer speed increase, so thanks for the recommendation. Not a huge boost, but every little bit helps.