On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Kussh Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Have tried it on 2 computers. Did not work there. > > You could be right--the drive may be faulty. Will have it checked at the > computer shop. > > Thanks. > Kussh You may get such info from dmesg also,, use # tail -f /var/log/dmesg and then plug device,, if its faulty, It will be shown on logs
also , Plz Do not TOP POST > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Abhishek Indoria > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Kussh Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Am using ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop. Have also tried with ubuntu 8.10 and >> > 9.10. System is unable to detect and connect to a USB external >> > drive--make >> > is seagate, capacity is 250 GB, model is called freeagent. >> > >> > Have also tried the device in windows7 where it is also not detected. >> > >> > The external drive can be felt to be running as its whirring sound can >> > be >> > felt. Also it glows from the top due to some LEDs which shine thru holes >> > on >> > the top of the drive's cover. There is only one USB connector cable >> > which >> > acts both as a power supply cable and a data cable. >> > >> > Generally USB devices when plugged in are detected instantly but this is >> > not >> > the case here. I have also installed pmount etc without any success. >> >> >> Tried on any other PC? >> Maybe the drive is faulty..Mine was. >> -- >> Abhishek Indoria >> OLPC Support Volunteer >> http://support.laptop.org >> >> -- >> Do you have another question? Click here - >> http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post >> Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug > > -- > Do you have another question? Click here - > http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post > Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ -- Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug
