Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[Douglas Pollard]

On 06/06/2011 03:52 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 15:34 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>> On 06/05/2011 11:03 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> Would someone please take a look at the above post and see if you can be
>> helpful in solving this problem.  I have not been able to open this Usb
>> drive and almost all my data is in it. If more info is needed I can try
>> to retrieve it.                             Doug
> What happens if you unplug the 150gig USB drive? I dunno, never having
> plugged in two USB drives at once, but could there be a master/slave
> thing going on?
>
> Trouble shooting with a shotgun here. But, I would think that you could
> just mount the darn thing, if you have identified it. Disk Utility
> (palimpsest) doesn't see it? Give that a whirl if you haven't tried it.
> Ric
>
>
   OK that is the problem Ric, I can't identify it in ubuntu except in 
disk utility. It was working with the other two  usb drives in Ubuntu 
9.10. I was working on vide useing the other two drives and would 
occasionally back it all up on the 2tB drive. After installing 10.04 it 
does not show up in ubuntu's computer file  so I can't mount it.  The 
drive does not appear anyplace in Ubuntu but does show up in the bios as 
a usb drive and in disk utility.  I was using both Cinelerra and Open 
shot and of course there is some flakiness there so I felt I needed to 
back up on a big drive after loosing a couple weeks work a few times.  I 
am thinking there may be some thing going on in the Bios????    I will 
read disk utility help and see if I can find anything there of 
use.       Doug