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I am a Newbie to Linux and am loving it. I have gone through Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, and continue using them on different PCs but I recently had a problem with my graphics card on new releases.. another story all together.
So I am using OpenSUSE 11.3 on my Dell inspiron 1526 AMD 64 bit. I have always been able to plug in my external HD and have it show on my desktop. Now with OpenSUSE something is different. I tried other flash drives, all show up and open to view on their own, but my 1GB ext HD doesn't. I am not a pro with the Terminal yet but I prefer to use it and am good at reading and copying commands from online.. I saw this earlier and maybe it will help
as you can see it says "My Book" which is the name of my ext TB but where is it and how do I mount it? Thanks and hope this isn't too long for a first question
this should work...
unplug the drive then run: sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
then plug in the drive and look for a log message that mentions sda or sdb or sdb1 ...
then to mount manually it would be something like:
Jan 16 16:56:01 linux-z81g kernel: [82131.296058] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 26
Jan 16 16:56:07 linux-z81g kernel: [82136.370103] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
If other usb storage will work with the same machine - same plug - suse 11.3 then I am lost. If you have time try 11.2 and see if there is a difference. If there is another usb slot try it. I am running 11.3 but do not have an external hd but do use storage cards and they auto mount. I think I did have a problem with one that did not have a partition, the device showed but did not have a partition to mount. If nothing else before I gave up I would try a different distro and make sure it worked under the same situation. I am curious, please let us know if you find a solution.
If other usb storage will work with the same machine - same plug - suse 11.3 then I am lost. If you have time try 11.2 and see if there is a difference. If there is another usb slot try it. I am running 11.3 but do not have an external hd but do use storage cards and they auto mount. I think I did have a problem with one that did not have a partition, the device showed but did not have a partition to mount. If nothing else before I gave up I would try a different distro and make sure it worked under the same situation. I am curious, please let us know if you find a solution.
is there an easy way to change the kernal to 11.2 or do I need a complete install? It has taken me a lot of effort to just get my 64 bit Chrome and Flash and Picassa and VLC on this beast, I hate to have to do it all again. The wife thinks I like my computer more than her lol
Its like everything is working perfect except this one problem!
Leave it alone, if can install a distro on a usb flash then try out your hd while booted to the flash distro. That would be a safe work around. The flash needs to be 2 gig or larger. They say you can get by with one gig but I load too much junk.
Another train of thought, have you tried that hd on that machine using a different distro and had it work? The reason I ask is usb backward compatibility, I always thought they all were backwards compatible.
Last edited by Larry Webb; 01-16-2011 at 05:49 PM.
Leave it alone, if can install a distro on a usb flash then try out your hd while booted to the flash distro. That would be a safe work around. The flash needs to be 2 gig or larger. They say you can get by with one gig but I load too much junk.
Another train of thought, have you tried that hd on that machine using a different distro and had it work? The reason I ask is usb backward compatibility, I always thought they all were backwards compatible.
it has worked on every distro I have tried, which were the ones I mentioned at first. They just all stopped supporting my video card in recent updates which gave me problems with graphics or full screening youtube among other things. I had to plug it in to an Ubuntu laptop earlier to tranfer files to a USB flash that I then plugged into here, and copied them. I even used the exact same port.. and all of them. They all recognize everything except the TB. You saw above that it sees it.. there has to be a simple explanation/answer. By the way thank you for looking at this problem!
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