Having Problems Mounting my External Hard-Disk

[Shlomi Fish]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 16:29:29 sara fink wrote:
> I also see that you have a new kernel that you installed lately. Did
> you check usb support in the kernel? Module or built in? lsmod will
> show you which modules you have autoloaded.
>
> grep -i usb /usr/src/linux/.config will show you what's going on. mass
> storage device
>
> post here also grep -i storage /usr/src/linux/.config
>
> is CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ONETOUCH set or not?
>

All the CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_* are modules ("=m"). I tried modprobe'ing ums-
onetouch . The modprobe was successful, but I still got the same problem when 
trying to mount the file-system.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> On 7/25/09, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> > {{{{{{{{{{{
> > 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:~$
> > }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what's wrong? I'm using:
> >
> > {{{
> > 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
> > }}}
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> >
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