Jorge Luis:
Robert Nichols:
> Jorge Luis wrote:
>> I have a 200 MiB Maxtor HD that isn't being seen by the OS. I have it
plugged
>> into the system through an EIDE/USB converter hub. It appears that the drive
>> isn't recognized, but the hub device is.
>
> Was the drive powered up and ready when you plugged the converter into
> the USB port? The scan is performed when the new USB connection is
> seen, and if you want the drive to be seen it has to be ready at that
> time. There's probably a way to force a re-scan later, but I don't
> know what that might be.
Bob,
Thanks for the tip. I've actually tried the sequence you recommend, without
success.
Barring a very lucky attempt to fdisk the drive, I'm afraid I'm pretty much
screwed. I believe the drive failed when I bailed out of a GRUB configuration
in the middle of the operation. I hope I didn't damage any of the drive's
native electronics or the resident software that's written to a small hidden
partition.
Thanks,
JL
Here's another tip for you all:
root@satyr:~# demsg | tail -12
[73223.969759] usb 4-6: USB disconnect, address 11
[73234.083956] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13
[73234.603566] usb 4-6: device not accepting address 13, error -71
[73272.550985] usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15
[73272.684685] usb 4-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[73272.697756] scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[73272.702383] usb-storage: device found at 15
[73272.702391] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[73277.692887] usb-storage: device scan complete
[73277.694470] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[73277.707413] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[73277.707491] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
Thanks to you all.
JL
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