> 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. >
They are both seagate 250GB's I think the drives are OK altho' I reckon that the USB housing is borked somehow or another. Tam. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
