Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[Douglas Pollard]

On 06/04/2011 01:45 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 01:23 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Douglas 
>> Pollard<dougpol1 at verizon.net>  wrote:
>>> Hi All,  In the process of updates, grades, and the installation of 
>>> a new
>>> DVD burner. My Ubuntu 11.04 can't see my 2 gig usb drive im not sure 
>>> when
>>> this happened. I guess there must be a permission problem but I 
>>> don't know
>>> what to do about it.  I ran into this a couple years ago and got 
>>> help here
>>> but I can't remember what I did about it.  Anybody got a good link 
>>> handy for
>>> help?    I'll be Googleing for help.        Doug
>>
>> When you say "can't see", do you mean it doesn't mount it at all?
>>
>>
>>
> Been thinking about this, I had changed the boot order in the Bios to 
> try to boot from a thumb drive. Didn't get it to work so I put the 
> bios back to original.  The Hard 2 gig drive does not show up in 
> computer folder at all. I have a couple other usb drives and they show 
> up.  They open as empty. Not sure but I think there are files on them. 
> The big drive must not be mounted. As it does not show up any place 
> except in the bios.                             Doug
>
OK here is what I am getting from a terminal entry
douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ sudo blkid -c /dev/null
[sudo] password for douglasdoug:
/dev/sda1: UUID="88a2c848-eb4f-43fa-947e-92aa67e09ec7" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="c8cf4480-e22d-43f5-81ca-e7ec1bbd053f" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="14b3e293-a312-4c77-8548-c237d4543c41" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdh1: UUID="04D2-B038" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdi1: UUID="8A82-72E5" TYPE="vfat"
douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$


AS best I can tell sdh1 and sdi1 are my 150g usb drive and a 250 g usb drive
I don't see my 2 terabite free agent Seagate drive at all.
I was calling the 2 terabite drive a 2 gig drive in my last post  old 
habit I guess.  Does this tell anyone anything about my problem or wher 
i might go from here??                    Doug