Having Problems Mounting my External Hard-Disk

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

I should note that after rebooting to my Debian partition, the
external hard-disk is successfully mounted and I can see the
partition. So it's likely a problem with the Mandriva kernel or
something like that. I'll investigate.

Regards,



On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Shlomi Fish<shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> 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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