Can't mount external USB HDD drive :(

[Werner Schram]

alecs schreef:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:05 +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
>   
>> devkit-disks --dump
>>     
>
> /dev/sdc is my drive ... unfortunately there is no /dev/sdc1 :((
>
> ========================================================================
> Showing information for /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Disks/devices/sdc
>
> native-path:                 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sdc
>   device:                      8:32
>   device-file:                 /dev/sdc
>
> by-id:                     /dev/disk/by-id/usb-StoreJet_Transcend_33271F131A00-0:0
>
> by-path:                   /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:3:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
>   detected at:                 Thu 03 Dec 2009 05:59:56 PM EET
>   system internal:             0
>   removable:                   0
>   has media:                   1 (detected at Thu 03 Dec 2009 05:59:56
> PM EET)
>     detects change:            0
>     detection by polling:      0
>     detection inhibitable:     0
>     detection inhibited:       0
>   is read only:                0
>   is mounted:                  0
>   mount paths:             
>   mounted by uid:              0
>   presentation hide:           0
>   presentation nopolicy:       0
>   presentation name:           
>   presentation icon:           
>   size:                        320072933376
>   block size:                  512
>   job underway:                no
>   usage:                       raid
>   type:                        nvidia_raid_member
>   version:                     100
>   uuid:                        
>   label:                       
>   partition table:
>     scheme:                    mbr
>     count:                     0
>   drive:
>     vendor:                    StoreJet
>     model:                     Transcend
>     revision:                  0000
>     serial:                    33271F131A00
>     detachable:                1
>     can spindown:              0
>     rotational media:          1
>     ejectable:                 0
>     media:                     
>       compat:                 
>     interface:                 usb
>     if speed:                  480000000 bits/s
>     ATA SMART:                 not available
>
> ========================================================================
>
>
>   
This thread might be related to your problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8346784

But you should be careful with these commands because they might be
destructive to your disks data. If you have some means to backup it (on
an older ubuntu installation or another OS), you should!

Regards,
Werner