[Swlug] External hard drive

[Bill Thomson]

 The info on the terminal is as follows ... 

tail -f /var/log/syslog
Feb  2 14:23:34 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1224.976316] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Feb  2 14:23:34 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1224.976325] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 3b 00 00 00
Feb  2 14:23:34 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1224.978316] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
Feb  2 14:23:34 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1224.978326] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Feb  2 14:23:34 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1224.984845]  sdb: unknown partition table
Feb  2 14:23:34 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1224.988478] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Feb  2 14:23:51 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p wpa_supplicant[1464]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Feb  2 14:23:57 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p wpa_supplicant[1464]: wlan0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 58:98:35:cd:af:81 [GTK=CCMP]
Feb  2 14:25:03 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p wpa_supplicant[1464]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Feb  2 14:30:29 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1640.372102] usb 4-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.493502] usb 4-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.589878] usb 4-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=07ab, idProduct=0621
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.589888] usb 4-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=4, Product=5, SerialNumber=6
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.589894] usb 4-1.2: Product: Ext. HDD
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.589898] usb 4-1.2: Manufacturer: I
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.589902] usb 4-1.2: SerialNumber: 20120816
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.590513] usb-storage 4-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1714.590885] scsi host8: usb-storage 4-1.2:1.0
Feb  2 14:31:03 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p wpa_supplicant[1464]: message repeated 4 times: [ wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED ]
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 6: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.2"
Feb  2 14:31:43 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 6 was not an MTP device
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.760577] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Samsung  SSD 850 EVO 1TB       PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.761278] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.762011] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.763074] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.763082] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 3b 00 00 00
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.764727] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.764737] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.771741]  sdb: unknown partition table
Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.775757] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk


Blessings,Bill

    On Saturday, 2 February 2019, 13:26:23 GMT, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:  
 
 On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 13:01, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have an idea my laptop is feeling the strain a bit, and I should like to get an external hard drive to back up all my data before something bad happens.
>
> I have a Sandisk SSD and a Samsung SSD, but cannot get the laptop HP elitebook running Mint Mate (Caja 1.12.7) to recognise either of them. I'd appreciate some help with this please, and advice on what external hard drive is best to back up important data. Looking at at least 1Tb.

I presume they are USB drives.  Run
tail -f /var/log/syslog
and plug in one of the drives.  Post what you get here.  In case you
don't know you can copy out of the terminal using Ctrl-Shift-C

Colin

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