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HermesT

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-09-06

Posts: 36

Problem with external HD

I have a external HD with some partitions. When I plug in it, dmesg say:

usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
scsi6 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0
scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USB TO I DE/SATA Device   0041 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

But I can't see any partition, and I can't mount /dev/sdb, and fdisk can't read it.

I've install HAL, udev and autofs, and I've tried rules from Wiki for external HD with partitions but nothing seems to work.

Some idea?

Thanks

lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 1,087

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Re: Problem with external HD

Plug that drive in then show us the output from "sudo fdisk -l"

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HermesT

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-09-06

Posts: 36

Re: Problem with external HD

Hi lagagnon.

Thanks for your quick response. "Problem" is solved. Sometimes we forget  basics things.:rolleyes:

There were no problem with Arch...
Simply, HD must have master swicth ON.
I've never worked with internal IDE by usb adapters. Now I know that this  is an important detail.

Now HD is working well, ("como la seda!") and I am restoring personal files.

Next step.. configure a robust backup policy.

Thanks again  for your time.

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Problem with external HD

It would be nice to mark this as solved.  It will help others searching for the same problem.

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