Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive

Sat Apr 12 23:04:19 UTC 2008

is my problem getting my maxtor mini iii 100 gb ehd working likely to have something to do with device driver?

the Device Manager shows it under USB 2.0 but has Device Type "unknown " and Capabilities "unknown"

   $ dmesg

   [   23.201924] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
   [   23.202045] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
   [   23.202111] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
   [   23.202115] USB Mass Storage support registered.
   [   23.202227] usb-storage: device found at 2
   [   23.202229] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
   [   23.250922] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
   [   23.257360] Probing IDE interface ide1...
   [   24.117843] hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
   [   24.484739] hda: cache flushes supported
   [   24.484800]  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
   [   24.526649] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
   [   24.526662] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
   [   24.756958] Attempting manual resume
   [   24.756963] swsusp: Resume From Partition 3:5
   [   24.756965] PM: Checking swsusp image.
   [   24.757148] PM: Resume from disk failed.
   [   24.773542] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
   [   24.773548] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
   [   27.750553] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
   [   27.750581] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
   [   27.750818] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
   [   28.193245] usb-storage: device scan complete
   [   28.957425] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Maxtor   OneTouch III     0364 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
   [   36.369084] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
   [   37.620458] NET: Registered protocol family 17
   [   38.191639] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
   [   39.559343] SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
   [   39.560464] sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
   [   39.560467] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
   [   39.563084] sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
   [   39.563086] : Current: sense key: Illegal Request
   [   39.563088]     Additional sense: Invalid command operation code
   [   39.563585] SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
   [   39.564709] sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
   [   39.564712] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
   [   39.564715]  sda:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
   [   39.565835] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
   [   39.566952] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
   [   39.566955] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
   [   39.568076] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0

From: corbtr at hotmail.com
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: RE: Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:44:23 +1000

here's another thing i tried

corbett at corbett-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0d49:7250 Maxtor 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 

> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:21:28 -0500
> From: dan at spore.ath.cx
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive
> 
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:04:26 +1000
> Tony Corbett <corbtr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > " sudo fdisk -l" results in :
> 
> > Disk /dev/sda: 3892 MB, 3892056064 bytes
> > 38 heads, 42 sectors/track, 595 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1596 * 4096 = 6537216 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1               1         596     3800580    b  W95 FAT32
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> >      phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 22)
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> >      phys=(59, 37, 42) logical=(595, 13, 42)
> > 
> > 
> 
> The second one is your usb-attached, probably; I take it it's a 4GB
> drive.  
> 
> It has a partition table; I would have thought it woud come up.  
> 
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