Accessing external IDE drive via USB2 with IDE - USB adaptor cable.

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/9/21 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> I need to access the data on an IDE hard drive. I have connected the
> drive to power and to the computer via an IDE - USB adaptor cable,
> however I do not see how I can mount this disk. My internal hard disk
> is sda, with the fileystem on sda2 and /home on sda4. There are no
> other hard disks connected to the machine. Here is what I get:

> hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ tail /var/log/messages
> Sep 21 20:23:00 hardy2-laptop kernel: [17814.139565] scsi 2:0:0:0:
> Direct-Access                                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
> Sep 21 20:23:00 hardy2-laptop kernel: [17814.144484] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]
> Attached SCSI disk
> Sep 21 20:23:00 hardy2-laptop kernel: [17814.144525] sd 2:0:0:0:
> Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> Sep 21 20:31:11 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18304.788361] usb 2-3: USB
> disconnect, address 20
> Sep 21 20:31:50 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18343.596192] usb 2-3: new high
> speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21
> Sep 21 20:31:50 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18343.729932] usb 2-3:
> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Sep 21 20:31:50 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18343.730526] scsi3 : SCSI
> emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Sep 21 20:31:55 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18348.725245] scsi 3:0:0:0:
> Direct-Access                                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
> Sep 21 20:31:55 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18348.727118] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]
> Attached SCSI disk
> Sep 21 20:31:55 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18348.727156] sd 3:0:0:0:
> Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

It looks like it cant find any partitions on the disk. dmesg gives me
this output for my USB Corsair flash disk:

[18715.252402] usb 1-4.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 11
[18715.287109] usb 1-4.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[18715.289627] scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[18715.289841] usb-storage: device found at 11
[18715.289842] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[18717.075274] usb-storage: device scan complete
[18717.075845] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Corsair  UFD
   1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[18717.079050] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] 31457280 512-byte hardware sectors (16106 MB)
[18717.080076] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Write Protect is off
[18717.080078] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[18717.080080] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Assuming drive cache: write through
[18717.083690] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] 31457280 512-byte hardware sectors (16106 MB)
[18717.084718] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Write Protect is off
[18717.084720] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[18717.084721] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Assuming drive cache: write through
[18717.084724]  sdk: sdk1 sdk3
[18717.109092] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdk] Attached SCSI removable disk
[18717.109124] sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg11 type 0

what do "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" give you?

/ Jonas