Bought a new Western Digital Elements Portable Hard Drive 250GB recently, purchased from Bond and Bond 2009-03-04 NZ$129 (see
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog.php?b=1731 for an update on this post)
Failed to mount under ubuntu hardy, dmesg gave only:
usb 4-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21
Googled for this dmesg (minus the address number), found:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-898939.html...