On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I have an external 160 gigs usb hard drive, and I can't write to > it. With 'tail -f /var/log/kern.log' I discovered that it is attached > to /dev/sde1 > > Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using > ehci_hcd and address 9 > Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage > devices > Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 9 > Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle > before scanning > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Vendor: WDC WD16 Model: 00BB-00GUC0 > Rev: 0 0 > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access > ANSI SCSI revision: 00 > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr > sectors (160042 MB) > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr > sectors (160042 MB) > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: sde1 > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, > id 0, lun 0 > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete > Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
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