Cannot find USB hard disk

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

- Do you know for sure the USB-to-IDE adaptor is OK ?

- Does the mount command show anything ? How about something like  
qtparted (or gparted etc.) ?

cheers Chris

On 16 Apr 2009, at 9:22AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 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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