Hi all, @Dotan It is NTFS. But then the Expansion drives were also NTFS. I do have the NTFS-3g package installed. What is/was cool is that Expansion drives auto-mounted without an issue and still do. I dunno why it's not able to do that with backup plus.
On 2/1/15, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under > my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file > size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives > don't use it. > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> This is on a testing machine What happened is I bought a 2 TB Seagate >> Backup Plus Slim >> couple of days ago. The system is an old system having few USB 2 ports >> while the HDD is USB 3 but supposedly backward compatible. I can see >> the HDD via lsusb and fdisk but for some reason it's unable to >> automount it. Any ideas what could be the issue ? >> >> Sharing what I saw :- >> >> $ lsusb >> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC >> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub >> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse >> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> >> As can be seen there are few USB 1.1 ports and few 2.0 ports. As can >> be seen Seagate attaches and declares itself at Bus 005 Device 003: ID >> 0bc2:ab24 . >> >> I also checked via fdisk -l and got the following :- >> >> $ sudo fdisk -l >> >> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >> Disklabel type: dos >> Disk identifier: 0xc5f7c5f7 >> >> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type >> /dev/sda1 63 102398309 102398247 48.8G 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda2 102398371 1953523711 1851125341 882.7G f W95 Ext'd >> (LBA) >> /dev/sda5 102398373 204796619 102398247 48.8G 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sda6 * 204797952 595421183 390623232 186.3G 83 Linux >> /dev/sda7 595423232 790732799 195309568 93.1G 83 Linux >> /dev/sda8 790734848 1943076863 1152342016 549.5G 83 Linux >> /dev/sda9 1943078912 1953523711 10444800 5G 82 Linux swap / >> Solaris >> >> Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. >> >> Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary. >> >> Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary. >> >> Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398933504 bytes, 3907029167 sectors >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> Disklabel type: dos >> Disk identifier: 0x1bc6b3bc >> >> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type >> /dev/sdb1 2048 952322047 952320000 454.1G 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sdb2 952322048 1904642047 952320000 454.1G 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sdb3 1904642048 2856962047 952320000 454.1G 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> /dev/sdb4 2856962048 3907026943 1050064896 500.7G f W95 Ext'd >> (LBA) >> /dev/sdb5 2856964096 3907026943 1050062848 500.7G 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> >> Except for /dev/sdb4 which says it's W95 the rest of them seem to be >> ok. Then why it is that the disk does not automount ? >> >> I have Seagate Expansion disks and they mount under nautilus or any >> other file storage viewer but not this. >> >> Looking forward to know what could possibly be the reason and if it's >> not related to the kernel guide me to the proper package for the same. >> >> Thank you. >> -- >> Regards, >> Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल >> My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ >> http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com >> EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> https://lists.debian.org/cadddzrmgd3wgjh4jw9yc4jyugg-pqfz2siex2jan6-vzsqa...@mail.gmail.com >> > > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CADdDZR=MyxC7xua7Wj8+fMxZAGeFM-jFAgsb=_bdm90sr8y...@mail.gmail.com