It must have been a bad/old image. I loaded the current Dabein image and
the USB is working now. Thank you very much for your help!

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:06 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Its not an external drive, but I just plugged a 1GB USB memory stick into
>> my BBG running "latest" 2015-11-12 with all upgrades as of about five days
>> ago.  While nothing auto mounted, and lsusb didn't show anything I could
>> recognize as the USB stick, /dev/sd and /dev/sda1 appeared*
>>
>
> OK that's odd . . .
>
> So what I was going to before, was to run *fdisk -l* and see if the drive
> shows up there, but lsusb always showed my usb driver controller for my
> external hard drive. Maybe this is some sort of USB thumb drive sort of
> thing ? *shrug*
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Its not an external drive, but I just plugged a 1GB USB memory stick into
>> my BBG running "latest" 2015-11-12 with all upgrades as of about five days
>> ago.  While nothing auto mounted, and lsusb didn't show anything I could
>> recognize as the USB stick, /dev/sd and /dev/sda1 appeared
>>
>> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt let me list the files.
>>
>>
>> Are the ntfs tools installed on your system?  ('m not certain of the
>> actual package name),  are they installed on the beaglebone.org images?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 1:04:32 PM UTC-6, Rikk Sullenberger wrote:
>>>
>>> Just tried the drive minus the hub,  no luck.  I tried with a split
>>> cable (power/USB)  and a standard cable (peed from the  BBB...  Sane
>>> issue.  :(
>>> On Feb 5, 2016 1:14 PM, "William Hermans" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the drive does not show up from the output of lsusb, then the
>>>> hardware isn't connecting to the OS. So, I would suggest bypassing the USB
>>>> HUB for a temporary test, and see if the drive shows up like that.
>>>>
>>>> 3.8.13-bone47 might be old, but I know it works with external self
>>>> powered USB hard drives. As I've booted from USB in the past . . . Note the
>>>> date of this blog post I wrote . . . over two years ago.
>>>> http://www.embeddedhobbyist.com/2013/07/beaglebone-black-usb-boot/
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Rikk Sullenberger
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> > I am trying to attatch a 360gig USB2 NTFS hard drive to a Beaglebone
>>>>> Black.
>>>>> > The drive does not show up under the /dev/ tree, doesn't show up
>>>>> with lsusb,
>>>>> > doesn't show up in dmesg..
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The drive is self powered, I have tried a different hub, different
>>>>> hard
>>>>> > drive, the hard drive works on a raspberry..
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Anyone had this happen? I bought this BBB a year ago and just started
>>>>> > playing with it...
>>>>>
>>>>> > [   17.647683] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.8.13-bone47 musb-hcd
>>>>> > [   17.647694] usb usb2: SerialNumber: musb-hdrc.0.auto
>>>>> > [   17.648205] usb usb2: usb_probe_device
>>>>> > [   17.648223] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>>>> > [   17.648269] usb usb2: adding 2-0:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
>>>>> > [   17.648396] hub 2-0:1.0: usb_probe_interface
>>>>> > [   17.648410] hub 2-0:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
>>>>> > [   17.648428] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
>>>>> > [   17.648452] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
>>>>> > [   17.648463] hub 2-0:1.0: standalone hub
>>>>> > [   17.648473] hub 2-0:1.0: individual port power switching
>>>>> > [   17.648483] hub 2-0:1.0: no over-current protection
>>>>> > [   17.648493] hub 2-0:1.0: Single TT
>>>>> > [   17.648505] hub 2-0:1.0: TT requires at most 8 FS bit times (666
>>>>> ns)
>>>>> > [   17.648516] hub 2-0:1.0: power on to power good time: 10ms
>>>>> > [   17.648540] hub 2-0:1.0: local power source is good
>>>>> > [   17.648599] hub 2-0:1.0: enabling power on all ports
>>>>> > [   17.748539] hub 2-0:1.0: state 7 ports 1 chg 0000 evt 0000
>>>>> > [   17.748600] hub 2-0:1.0: hub_suspend
>>>>> > [   17.748629] usb usb2: bus auto-suspend, wakeup 1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.8.13-bone47 is pretty old.. How are you powering the bbb? 5volt dc
>>>>> jack right????
>>>>>
>>>>> Give one of the jessie lxqt shapshots a try with a more modern kernel:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
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>>>>> https://rcn-ee.com/
>>>>>
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