This happens to me every time I have a power failure, which is often enough to make it a major hassle.

What is happening on my Pogoplug is that when it shuts down unexpectedly, it corrupts the filesystem on the attached USB disks, and it won't reconnect them when the power comes back on.

I only have Mac computers, so initially all my USB drives were formatted with HFS+. The first time this happened, I plugged the disk into my Mac and used the disk utility to repair the filesystem, and then reconected it to the Pogoplug. Then it happened again, and again, and I finally found a reference on the forum that this was a known problem with the HFS+ filesystem on USB disks.

Then, I brought a Windows laptop home from work and used it to re-format the disk in NTFS. It worked through two power failures, but now has failed again. I think my only solution is going to be to buy a UPS for the pogoplug and disks. I guess another alternative would be to try using the EXT3 filesystem with journaling. Does anyone know if the Pogoplug supports that?

It's a pain in the rear, anyways.