it's premature to use that hard drive as a paper-weight :) try plugging-in the external drive then execute the command:
shell> fdisk -l and check if an SDA device is present on the lower end of the screen. if still present, then perform a file system check on that device. then mount the device, manually. iirc, i've experienced the same problem before and i noticed that the device was only given a different name (sdb instead of sda) due to an improper unmount. if the problem persist, try using the HDD internally next time (kiddin) On 7/11/06, Allister Levi Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Pluggers, I have a (rather quirky or obsolete? non-branded) IDE-to-USB converter connected to my 80GB hard disk so I could use it as external USB HDD. A couple of days ago, I was copying several GBs of data to my external drive. After I have copied the files, I tried to unmount it by right-click --> Safely Remove (I'm using Kubuntu Dapper LTS). It wouldn't unmount. It sometimes happens to my other USB drives so I thought it was OK to pull the USB cable anyway. Now, when I tried to reconnect the external HDD to access my data, it wouldn't mount. I check dmesg and I see something like this: [17180236.324000] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [17180236.456000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [17180236.456000] usb-storage: device found at 4 [17180236.456000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [17180247.180000] usb 4-6: USB disconnect, address 4 [17180247.180000] 2:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery [17180247.180000] usb-storage: device scan complete There was also a message (sorry I forgot to copy it) saying some reiserfs error code (the filesystem of the external drive is reiserfs). Could anyone tell me how I could work around this problem? Or does it mean I've just lost my 80GB forever?
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