Cannot find USB hard disk
Gilles Gravier
gilles at gravier.org
Thu Apr 16 09:35:37 UTC 2009
Keep in mind that your USD-to-IDE adapter might need its own power supply...
and so might the disk (depending on the model). Only the low power 2.5 inch
drives can be powered directly by the USB port... others need a separate
power line to them.
Gilles
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Chris Jones <christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch
> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > --
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
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> > http://gibberish.co.il
> >
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