[Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore

[Kyle Gordon]

What make of drive is it? I've had a Maxtor and a Lacie both fail at the 
interface level for some reason. Both drives work fine when connected via 
IDE.

Kyle

On Thursday 18 May 2006 21:05, Thomas McLean wrote:
> Hi Martin/all,
>
> Just an update, I installed ubuntu onto another machine and tried it
> that way and the exact same messages appeared (different kernels).
>
> So I says stuff it time to open the casing. I done it without breaking
> the warranty sticker, so thats a good thing. I mounted it into the new
> installation of ubuntu and then formatted it to ext3 and tried it on my
> other PC and that worked fine under ubuntu. It's mounted and working
> perfectly. I've not tried the other drive (format and mount procedure)
> as yet but will get round to that shortly.
>
> I'd imagine that the other drive will be working too and maybe just the
> casing is broke somehow. The casing is just lying beside the computer, I
> actually do prefer the drives being inside the PC for speed issues etc.
>
> Thanks for all the replies tho', it's very much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tam.
>
> > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 05:31:04PM +0100, Thomas McLean wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> First of all for informational purposes I am running Ubuntu Dapper.
> >>
> >> Myself and Kyle (aka bagpuss) tried for a few hours last night by doing
> >> various methods and it still didn't suceed.
> >>
> >> I have a 500gb external usb2 hdd which I have been using for the past
> >> couple of days. Anyway, I rebooted my machine and when I try to mount
> >> the hdd it just says:
> >
> > Are you one the same kernel? Did you apt-get any kernel/udev/hotplug
> > packages since your earlier boot?
> >
> >> 'tam at spud:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/big
> >> mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist'
> >
> > Are you using udev?
> >
> >> Well at that point I thought I should check to see if the modules are
> >> present and here is the output from that also:
> >>
> >> tam at spud:~$ lsmod |grep usb
> >> usb_storage            74176  0
> >> scsi_mod              139496  4 sd_mod,usb_storage,sr_mod,sbp2
> >> usbcore               129668  4 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
> >
> > Looks good to me.
> >
> >> dmesg reports this whenever I put in the usb2 cable:
> >> [4294852.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 2
> >> [4295590.979000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> >> address 3
> >> [4295953.814000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> >> [4295953.814000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> >> [4295953.814000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
> >> [4296229.694000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type
> >> methods
> >
> > This is not so good. Have you googled for 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
> >
> > Seems like a kernel/driver thing to me. Does the hard disk show up
> > in /proc/scsi/scsi?
> > Also, have a look at the 'lsusb -v' and if need be 'lsusb -vv' output.
> >
> > --
> > Martin
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