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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

Hi all,

I have noticed since couple of kernel updates, my external hard drive - plugged via USB doesn't get mounted any more. To access the drive I need to reboot the computer with the hard drive switch on.

See below for the dmesg output, regular usb keys get mounted normally, I have check autofs set up and it seems fine compare to the wiki,

Many thanks for taking the time to read my topic,

Looking forward for your replies,

[   37.753349] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[   38.139340] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[   38.175765] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[   38.175829] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   38.175830] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[   38.240086] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-6:1.0
[   38.240226] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-cypress
[   44.726882] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST325082 3A                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   44.727768] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB)
[   44.728724] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[   44.728727] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
[   44.729729] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   44.753026]  sde: sde1
[   75.466677] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[   75.591741] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2243.446832] usb 2-6: USB disconnect, device number 4
[ 2278.086455] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 2278.211117] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-6:1.0
[ 2285.078375] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST325082 3A                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 2285.079220] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB)
[ 2285.080209] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[ 2285.080212] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
[ 2285.081222] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2285.101763]  sde: sde1
[ 2285.105212] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2316.159787] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd

frank419

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Registered: 2012-01-12

Posts: 33

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

Have you checked System Settings -> Removable Devices? That is where the rules for external mounted devices reside.

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gregor

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Registered: 2011-06-20

Posts: 175

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

is it a ntfs file-system or fat32 /? ,if ntfs.... you need to install https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs

"sudo pacman -Sy ntfs-3g"

i had to install it to and all my drives get detected automatically ,fat32 should be supported by kernel

Last edited by gregor (2012-01-24 18:50:50)

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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

Yes I have checked System Settings -> Removable Devices - but there is no option for an external hard drive.

And yes it is a ntfs drive, but as I said it worked before couples of updates ago, and just to be sure I checked ntfs-3g - it is installed.

Oh, and I should have said, checking /dev/by-label the drive appear there once turn on, but doesn't get mounted, I use to have a line in the fstab file, but I removed it because it tried to mount it during booting process, and it work anyway.

Any other advice?

Last edited by sweetthdevil (2012-01-24 19:03:00)

ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 912

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

It's funny, I had the exact same problem in Ubuntu just this weekend, but the drive continued to be mounted just fine in Arch. The resolution (for Ubuntu) was to add a line saying "usb_storage" to the /etc/modules file. Since I did not have the problem in Arch, I have no idea whether it will help you, but it's worth taking a look.

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gregor

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From: /planet/tmpfs

Registered: 2011-06-20

Posts: 175

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

post output ~/.xinitrc  please

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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

I do not use xinitrc

frank419

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Registered: 2012-01-12

Posts: 33

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

add a line saying "usb_storage"

I had this issue as well.

OP do you use KDE? In system settings -> removable devices there should be check boxes for the rules of removable media.

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Zulfikar

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Registered: 2011-12-18

Posts: 57

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

fdisk -l will show you all attached disks. run it as root.

sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

Re: External Hard Drive not Mounting any more

Well yes, it will show the disk which I can mount using the terminal.

The issue there is that it doesn't get mounted automatically like before.