Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[Nils Kassube]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 15:34 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> > > 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.                            

I don't think the blkid output is helpful because it doesn't tell 
anything about the disks. Please post the output of the command

sudo fdisk -l

That should identify the disk sizes and partitions.

> 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?

No. USB doesn't know anything about master/slave. That is a "feature" of 
IDE disks and only if they are on the same bus.


Nils