[Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore

[Aidan Skinner]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:40 +0100, 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.

That's deeply unfortunate. Tried plugging it in to a usb port directly,
and through a hub/keyboard etc? My camera *hates* not being plugged
directly into the machine directly.

- Aidan