Cannot find USB hard disk

[Nils Kassube]

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:

If there is nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages the disk is not 
visible to the system. I had the same problem once. The USB plug at the 
disk side was a type B connector and I had inserted this plug with the 
wrong orientation, i.e. turned around 180°. I certainly needed some 
force to do that but it was possible. After I connected the plug 
properly the disk worked.


Nils