Cannot find USB hard disk

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 08:22:29 UTC 2009


I am connecting an EXT3-formatted 40 GB known-good Western Digital
hard disk to my Kubuntu 8.04 machine via USB-to-IDE adaptor. When I
plug the drive in nothing related shows up in dmesg nor in fdisk:

hardy1 at hardy1-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for hardy1:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c6625

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1459    11719386   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1460        2918    11719417+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            2919        3283     2931862+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4            3284        9729    51777495   83  Linux
hardy1 at hardy1-laptop:~$



Where should I take it from here?

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