[Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore

[Thomas McLean]

Kyle Gordon wrote:
> On Monday 15 May 2006 16:27, Philip Ward wrote:
>   
>> Have you tried fdisk -l after plugging in the drive?
>> The system may choose to put it as sdb instead of sda.
>> fdisk -l will tell you where the drive is if it can be seen at all.
>>
>>     
>
> Yep, tried that. When the drive is plugged in, nothing gets loaded. The USB 
> Mass Storage guff in the logs mentioned earlier was from when I loaded the 
> module manually. All that normally gets spewed out by dmesg is this...
>
> [4296247.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 3
> [4296249.229000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 
> 4
> [4296249.733000] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 4, error -71
> [4296249.835000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 
> 5
>
> So, usb-storage isn't loaded, and /dev/sda* isn't present. the drive also 
> doesn't appear in disk manglement mmc in Windows apparently.
>
> Kyle
>
>   
So I take it that when I plug the drive in usb-storage should turn on? 
Because, if it's not present then why would it recognise it? I'm not 
good with this sorta thing...

Tam.

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