cannot mount ACOMDATA external USB drive

[David Vincent]

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Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Last week I bought a new Seagate 500gb SATA2 drive and an ACOMDATA
>> enclosure for it.  When it arrived and I put it together, Ubuntu
>> recognized the drive right away and I was able to partition the drive
>> and copy my stuff to it.
>>   
>     You don't say, but I assume you put the SATA drive in the enclosure 
> and plugged it in the USB port on your computer. Is this correct?

yes.

>> However now when I plug it in it does not mount, instead I get messages
>> like this in my logs:
>>
>>   
>     This makes me think you didn't plug the whole external thing into 
> your computer, just the hard drive, right?

hard drive into enclosure, power applied to enclosure, usb cable to
connect the works to the pc, pretty standard stuff.

>     You need to make the external system work before you back up.
> 
>     You had better check out just how well the hard drive is wired to the
> 
> ACOMDATA
> 
> enclosure. Start there and get the the external to mount automatically. 
> Turn off whatever you have in /etc/fstab before you go farther.

did that, checked my connections, all is good.  now it seems on two
machines here with onboard USB 2.0 controllers the drive will mount ok
when hotplugged as well as reliably at boot time.  in other machines on
USB 1.1 controllers or on my two PCI-to-USB-2.0 cards (which happen to
be the same make) the drive does not mount.

so i'm up and running - i really only need it on the two machines where
it works.  annoying though.  if i could nail things down more i'd file a
bug about it.

- -d

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