Mint wont recognize USB or eSata external HD
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jjleininger
Mint wont recognize USB or eSata external HD
I'm trying to get my files from an external hard drive to my laptop, previously this had worked but now it wont recognize it at all. Im relatively new to linux so any helpful hints will be appreciated. thank you
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richyrich
Re: Mint wont recognize USB or eSata external HD
Plug in / turn on your usb drive, then open a terminal and type dmesg (enter), it may be quite long but we are only interested in the last few lines (which should be showing), are there any error messages?
If you want, you can highlight them with your mouse, and copy/paste them back here in a reply.
ps: you should be able to tell how many lines in the group by the time stamp along the left.
If you want, you can highlight them with your mouse, and copy/paste them back here in a reply.
ps: you should be able to tell how many lines in the group by the time stamp along the left.
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jjleininger
Re: Mint wont recognize USB or eSata external HD
when i run that command all i get it this several times - [44181.282043] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: ME failed to update for more than 1s, likely hung
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richyrich
Re: Mint wont recognize USB or eSata external HD
intel bios message . .intel ips 0000:00:1f . . . . . . . . .
1) check for an updated bios for your systemboard.
or
2) hope that it gets fixed/updated in newer kernel.
good luck.
my dmesg :
- [19227.604037] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[19227.782018] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[19227.782818] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
[19227.783031] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[19227.783038] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[19228.790571] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Maxtor 3000LE v01.00.00 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[19228.791655] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[19228.800006] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 156366848 512-byte logical blocks: (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
[19228.805468] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[19228.805476] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[19228.807780] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[19228.807785] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[19228.807792] sdb: sdb1
[19228.815307] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[19228.815316] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[19228.815324] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk