External Hard drive problem

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Linda Hanigan <haniganwork at earthlik.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:30 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>  > John K Masters wrote:
>  <snip>
>
> > >
>  > > Regards, John
>  > >
>  >     Hi John if the format is blown on the Hard Drive you can't mount it
>  > either but the HD can be fine.
>  >
>  > Karl
>  >
>  I suspect this is the problem.
>  The usb drive lights up to show it is connected to the computer and
>  power, but it does make a soft beep I hadn't noticed so maybe not.
>  Should I try to format it same way I format an unmounted harddrive?
>  The information isn't important since it is backup of working computers
>            Linda

If there's no device there in linux (no sdaX) then there's nothing you
can do to try it....  Linux can't work with something it can't see.
You might want to watch your system logs as you plug/unplug the device
to see if it registers at all....  But it sure sounds like the
enclosure has gone south.   New one is usually pretty cheap though....

Brian