On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 05:31:04PM +0100, Thomas McLean wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all for informational purposes I am running Ubuntu Dapper. > > Myself and Kyle (aka bagpuss) tried for a few hours last night by doing > various methods and it still didn't suceed. > > I have a 500gb external usb2 hdd which I have been using for the past > couple of days. Anyway, I rebooted my machine and when I try to mount > the hdd it just says:
Are you one the same kernel? Did you apt-get any kernel/udev/hotplug packages since your earlier boot? > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/big > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist' Are you using udev? > Well at that point I thought I should check to see if the modules are > present and here is the output from that also: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod |grep usb > usb_storage 74176 0 > scsi_mod 139496 4 sd_mod,usb_storage,sr_mod,sbp2 > usbcore 129668 4 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd Looks good to me. > dmesg reports this whenever I put in the usb2 cable: > [4294852.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 2 > [4295590.979000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 3 > [4295953.814000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > [4295953.814000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > [4295953.814000] USB Mass Storage support registered. > [4296229.694000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods This is not so good. Have you googled for this? > [4296247.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 3 > [4296249.229000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 4 > [4296249.733000] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 4, error -71 > [4296249.835000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 5 Seems like a kernel/driver thing to me. Does the hard disk show up in /proc/scsi/scsi? Also, have a look at the 'lsusb -v' and if need be 'lsusb -vv' output. -- Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is today. - Martin Habets --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
