What make of drive is it? I've had a Maxtor and a Lacie both fail at the interface level for some reason. Both drives work fine when connected via IDE.
Kyle On Thursday 18 May 2006 21:05, Thomas McLean wrote: > Hi Martin/all, > > Just an update, I installed ubuntu onto another machine and tried it > that way and the exact same messages appeared (different kernels). > > So I says stuff it time to open the casing. I done it without breaking > the warranty sticker, so thats a good thing. I mounted it into the new > installation of ubuntu and then formatted it to ext3 and tried it on my > other PC and that worked fine under ubuntu. It's mounted and working > perfectly. I've not tried the other drive (format and mount procedure) > as yet but will get round to that shortly. > > I'd imagine that the other drive will be working too and maybe just the > casing is broke somehow. The casing is just lying beside the computer, I > actually do prefer the drives being inside the PC for speed issues etc. > > Thanks for all the replies tho', it's very much appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Tam. > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
