Having Problems Mounting my External Hard-Disk

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

I have an external USB hard-disk ( Maxtor 500 GB). Up to a few weeks ago, I 
was able to mount it and access it properly on my Mandriva Cooker system. 
Recently, however I got this error:

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shlomi:~$ echo "Before connecting the external disk"
Before connecting the external disk                 
shlomi:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep external
/dev/sdd1      /mnt/external       ext3    rw,noauto,user  1 0
shlomi:~$ mount /mnt/external/                                
mount: special device /dev/sdd1 does not exist                
shlomi:~$ echo "Connecting external disk"
Connecting external disk                 
shlomi:~$ mount /mnt/external/
mount: /dev/sdd1 already mounted or /mnt/external busy
shlomi:~$ dmesg | tail                                
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Maxtor   OneTouch         0125 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0                                
usb-storage: device scan complete                                           
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors: (500 GB/465 GiB)     
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 2d 08 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdd: sdd1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
shlomi:~$ mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/external/
mount: only root can do that
shlomi:~$ mount
/dev/sdc1 on / type xfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sdc2 on /home type xfs (rw)
/dev/sdc5 on /mnt/Test-fedora type ext3 (rw,nosuid)
/dev/sdc6 on /mnt/archlinux type ext3 (rw,nosuid)
/dev/sdb3 on /mnt/kubuntu type xfs (rw,nosuid)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/old-mandriva type xfs (rw,nosuid)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat 
(rw,uid=502,gid=502,iocharset=iso8859-8,codepage=862,umask=002)
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_d type vfat 
(rw,uid=502,gid=502,iocharset=iso8859-8,codepage=86,umask=002)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/shlomi/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=shlomi)
shlomi:~$
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Can anyone tell me what's wrong? I'm using:

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Linux telaviv1.shlomifish.org 2.6.30.2-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Mon Jul 20 23:44:44 
EDT 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GNU/Linux
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Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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