cannot mount ACOMDATA external USB drive

[Karl Larsen]

David Vincent wrote:
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> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>     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?
>>     
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> yes.
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>>> However now when I plug it in it does not mount, instead I get messages
>>> like this in my logs:
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>>>       
>>     This makes me think you didn't plug the whole external thing into 
>> your computer, just the hard drive, right?
>>     
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> hard drive into enclosure, power applied to enclosure, usb cable to
> connect the works to the pc, pretty standard stuff.
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>>     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
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>> enclosure. Start there and get the the external to mount automatically. 
>> Turn off whatever you have in /etc/fstab before you go farther.
>>     
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> 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.
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> - -d
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>   
    Just a thought. I have a similar device that is a few months older 
than yours but identical in function. What I might have done different 
than you is I put the hard drive in the container and then with fdisk 
and mkfs.ext3 I set it up through the USB plug.

    Now I just plug the thing in with the power on and it brings up a 
panel that shows me what is on the hard drive. I kill that and with 
rsync I do a incremental backup.

    Never had to mess with /etc/fstab.

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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