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fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

External drive not recognised

Hi,

I'm trying to attach an old laptop hard drive via a SATA to USB cable, but it's not being recognised.  Dmesg shows the output below, so it identifies that a new device is attached, but fdisk -l or lsusb don't know it's there.  Not sure what to try next - any ideas?

usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
scsi7 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access                                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

I'd have expected an error message or something to appear in dmesg.  The drive should contain a single NTFS partition.

Thanks,
Fishonadish

fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

Re: External drive not recognised

Oops - just noticed this line in lsusb.  I assume this means the connector I'm using isn't working?

Bus 002 Device 008: ID 152d:2338 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20337 Hi-Speed USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge

Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 688

Re: External drive not recognised

If that's the case please mark this thread as solved by editing your first post and adding [solved] to the title.

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