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re: USB hard drive - external///

Will Kemp <will@xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote:

> zed wrote:

>snip>

> > The reinstall was successful but for some reason the computer will not
> > read the USB HD. It did before without me having to do anything
> > especially "Linuxie".   I have unplugged and plugged in the drive
both
> > at the drive and the computer connections, without success.  The hard
> > drive light is on.
> >
> > I have searched Google for "mounting external usb drive" but without
> > success.
> >
> > If I go into a terminal and type lsusb i get
> >
> > zed@zed-desktop ~ $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 004: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro
> > Corp. Transcend JetFlash 110 USB 2.0 Flash Drive (2GB) Bus 002 Device
> > 003: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter Bus 002 Device
> > 002: ID 03f0:2f17 Hewlett-Packard Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus
> > 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 zed@zed-desktop ~ $
> >
> > if that is any use. All I can recognise is the usb flash drive and HP
> > printer.  I presume that the USB 2.0 IDE Adapter is what allows the
> > other USB devices to register.  The external hard drive doesn't appear.
> >
> > So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell this
> > floundering geriatric what other avenues are open to him to solve this
> > problem.
>
> Install a "proper" distribution?! ;-)

It is :-)


> Plug in the hard drive, give it a few seconds, then do 'dmesg' - that
> should scroll loads of log stuff up your screen, but it's the last few
> lines you're interested in. It should register that a USB device has been
> plugged in. It should also say something about the nature of that device.
> Ideally, it should say it's attaching it to a scsi port.
>
Did as you suggest and got:

[   78.185029] usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
4
[   78.319346] usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   78.327074] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   78.333100] usb-storage: device found at 4
[   78.333105] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   83.332290] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   83.335039] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HTS54104 0G9AT00
0811 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   83.342519] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008
MB)
[   83.345515] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[   83.345518] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   83.349528] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008
MB)
[   83.352514] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[   83.352517] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   83.352522]  sdd:
[   83.702543] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[   83.702583] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
zed@zed-desktop ~ $

and then doing a lsusb I get

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Transcend JetFlash 110
USB 2.0 Flash Drive (2GB)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:2f17 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Sorry to be a pest but "what now"?

--
zed

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