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mjdudak

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Registered: 2012-07-10

Posts: 2

[solved] External Hard Drive Not Recognized

I bought a SATA-to-USB 2.0 external HDD enclosure today (found here), and plugged in a 320gb WD Scorpio Blue. When I first plugged it into my laptop, with Crunchbang Stalter on it, it worked perfectly. I partitioned it and everything. However, I then plugged it into my desktop with Arch on it, kernel version 3.4.4.2, and it was not recognized. lsusb returns nothing related to it, fdisk -l does nothing, and dmesg only displays "fuse init (API version 7.18)". I have tried multiple file systems, set up on my laptop, including ext4, fat32 and ntfs, with absolutely no luck. I would greatly appreciate any help.

Last edited by mjdudak (2012-07-11 15:56:32)

mynis01

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Registered: 2011-04-29

Posts: 72

Re: [solved] External Hard Drive Not Recognized

I was actually having the same problem with a USB to SATA adapter that only occured on my arch box. When the device was plugged in it showed the event in dmesg and then it got registered as /dev/sde. If I tried to use the mount command though it gave me some error like "could not read from inode" or something like that. After upgrading to kernel 3.4.4-4 the problem seems to have corrected its self now. Are you using systemd or udev?

Last edited by mynis01 (2012-07-10 09:01:38)

mjdudak

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Registered: 2012-07-10

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] External Hard Drive Not Recognized

Thanks, upgrading the kernel ended up working! Thanks a lot!