External drives no longer automounting

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Pumpkinator

External drives no longer automounting

Post by Pumpkinator »

G'day
I use Linux mint 9 and have two external hard drives which no longer auto mount as of this afternoon.

How can I do a manual mount or find out if the drives are being detected or what the problem is?
I tried running dmesg at a friends suggestion - I got this:

[ 2407.860309] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 2408.013011] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2408.083681] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 2408.083797] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 2408.083883] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 2408.083886] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 2408.084288] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 2408.084290] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 2413.083039] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 2413.084092] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 2413.085086] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 2413.087802] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

Don't know what, if anything I can do with this info.

One (connected when the above dmesg was run) is a sata drive from my old computer (linux mint 8) which i put into an USB powered enclosure and which was auto mounting fine until this afternoon. I used it most recently (yesterday) to transfer some files from my notebook to a friends computer who is also running mint 9. The light still comes on to show its getting power.

The other is a seagate terabyte drive which may have been damaged by the wrong power supply being plugged into it for a minute till I realised it was the wrong plug (gar!) - it doesn't have a power switch so the drive may have been fried - I can't tell - am hoping I can still get some data from it!

My iriver automounts fine - so it doesn't appear to be a usb glitch in the notebook.
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bobcollard

Re: External drives no longer automounting

Post by bobcollard »

Sorry this took so long to get to you, just found the solution to your problem:
http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... buntu.html
It worked for me.
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