Having Problems Mounting my External Hard-Disk

[Shlomi Fish]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 15:31:32 Shlomi Fish 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
> }}}
>

Replying to myself I'd like to note, that after booting up the Mandriva system 
with a vanilla/linus 2.6.30.3 kernel, the external hard-disk is working fine. 
I reported this as a bug in the Mandriva kernel:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=52453

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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