Cannot find USB hard disk

[wirechief]

does the adaptor show up with lsusb  , it doesnt sound like its being
identified. (maybe not working) fdisk should of shown something.


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:24 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?
>>
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