USB Hard disk drive.

[Derek]

Hi, I'm still trying to connect my USB external HDD to my Ubuntu box. It
worked once but not anymore... :(

I'd really appreciate any help.

Thank you.

On 10/6/06, Derek <derekmailbox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Felipe, thank you for your answer. I tried what you suggested but with
> no results. That's the output for "dmesg | tail" after unload/reload
> command:
>
>  [17185740.064000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> [17185740.064000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [17185740.064000] usb-storage: device found at 3
> [17185740.064000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before
> scanning
> [17185740.064000 ] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> [17185740.064000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
> [17185745.824000] usb 4-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> address 3
> [17185746.716000] usb 4-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> address 3
> [17185747.608000] usb 4-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> address 3
> [17185747.760000] usb-storage: device scan complete
>
> It seems to find the device but still there is no device mounted in my
> system or "/dev/sdaX" device that I could mount.
>
> Here the "lsusb" output:
>
> Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0402:5642 ALi Corp.
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a Optical Wheel
> Mouse
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> What else could I try??
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> On 10/6/06, Felipe Figueiredo <philsf at ufrj.br> wrote:
> >
> > Em Friday 06 October 2006 04:14, Derek escreveu:
> >
> > > How can I force the creation of a disk device when I plug my USB
> > external
> > > HDD?
> > >
> >
> > Try manually unloading and reloading the kernel module
> >
> > $ sudo modprobe -r usb-storage && sudo modprobe usb-storage
> >
> > after thar, check out dmesg for information
> >
> > $ dmesg | tail
> >
> > regards
> > FF
> >
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