I have bought an usb 2.0 to sata/ide cable,and tryout it with an sata hard disk and cdrom,but both where not recognized.(in ubuntu8.04)

do i need a driver or should it work just plugged in?

thanks for some advise

You need to mount hard disks on USB.

#sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/<find out> /<directory>

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A. Mani

I tryout sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/usbdev5.2 but i got a help output...


I tryout dmesg,and i got this(see below) what is probably the sata harddisk. connecting a cdrom at the sata/ide cable worked,so there is a possibility that the new sata harddisk is not working...

75.593734] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 90.797425] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 91.013251] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 106.113029] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 121.316725] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 121.532550] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 126.548592] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 131.664380] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 131.880175] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 136.896200] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 142.011987] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110


thanks for some advice

usb drives will be mapped to /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc ... if you already have a /dev/sda.


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A. Mani