USB hard drive

[Jim Douglas]

>From: James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: USB hard drive
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:26:34 +0100
>
>Jim Douglas has been having trouble with his USB drive.
>
> > .....rebooting show this in the log file, not sure which device to 
>mount?
> > Whey does it have 4 when there's only 1 drive?
> >
> > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> > sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
> > sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
> > sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
> >
> > EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.00
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.01
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.02
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.03
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>
>I said:
> > Erm -- this looks like it's a device to mount different sorts of media
> > (CompactFlash, SD, etc.)
>
>Jim replied:
> > It's an IOMEGA 60GB USB external Hard Drive.
> >
> > I tried sdb, sdc and sdd and it says,
> > mount: No medium found.
> >
> > When I try
> > fdisk -l /dev/sdx (I aslo tried sda, sdb, sdc, sdd)
> >
> > nothing happens, no messages or anything.
>
>OK: the messages don't tie up with what you say the drive is.
>
>Is it possible that you have card readers built into your computer?
>
>Can you reboot without the USB drive attached, and check that these
>messages disappear, and that you don't have any /dev/sd* nodes?
>
>Can you list what happens when you plug the hard drive in whilst Linux
>is booted?
>
>Can you try the hard drive in another system (a Windows one would help
>with debugging)?
>
> > The USB hard drive is FAT32, could that be an issue?
>
>Probably not.
>
>Thanks,
>
>James.
>
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>Is it possible that you have card readers built into your computer?

No

>Can you reboot without the USB drive attached, and check that these
>messages disappear, and that you don't have any /dev/sd* nodes?

the /dev/sa* nodes are still there after disconnecting.



>Can you list what happens when you plug the hard drive in whilst Linux
>is booted?

Nothing happens when I plug it in.


>Can you try the hard drive in another system (a Windows one would help
>with debugging)?

No problem on Windows I copied file to the drive.

On the Linux box I am definately plugged into USB 2.0.  I have also tried it 
with an extrnal power supply.


Jim