[Wylug-help] Accessing NTFS on an IDE drive through a USB external caddy

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

've got a WinXP system that's got stuffed by a virus. I've put a new HDD in 
and started a clean install and now I'm trying to use my (F17) Linux laptop 
to copy the files off the old HDD and scan them. However, when I connect the 
external USB caddy Linux fails to read the driver, as per the log entries 
below.

Can anyone suggest how I can get access to the drive please. There is nothing 
physically wrong with the drive and Windows did boot fine when it was in the 
PC.

Gary

[root at gary ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.312224] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device 
number 2 using ehci_hcd
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.428157] usb 2-2: New USB device found, 
idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.428167] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: 
Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.428174] usb 2-2: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI 
Bridge
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.428180] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: JMicron
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.428185] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 
152D203380B6
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 
2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2"
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 2 was not an MTP device
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.518265] Initializing USB Mass Storage 
driver...
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.519174] scsi5 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.519308] usbcore: registered new interface 
driver usb-storage
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [  301.519310] USB Mass Storage support 
registered.
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.521592] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access                                    
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS                 
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.523606] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic 
sg2 type 0                                                     
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.531087] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, 
assume Write Enabled                                           
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.532161] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache 
data failed                                                   
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.532173] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive 
cache: write through                                            
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.535760] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, 
assume Write Enabled                                           
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.536776] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache 
data failed                                                   
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.536783] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive 
cache: write through                                            
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [  302.536788] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI 
disk                                                             
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary ata_id[1968]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sdb': 
Invalid argument                                                 
^C                                                                                                                                           
[root at gary ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb                                                                                                                
fdisk: unable to read /dev/sdb: Invalid argument                                                                                             
[root at gary ~]#  
-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk