[Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore

[Thomas McLean]

> 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.
>

They are both seagate 250GB's I think the drives are OK altho' I reckon
that the USB housing is borked somehow or another.

Tam.

> 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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