USB hard disk not detected
 

im on mandriva 2007.1 spring
i got an external hard disk with USB connection
its detected by the MCC but its not detected by file browser
when i tried others they used to show up with an icon on the desk top directly...
but this one i cant find it anywhere
in the MCC in hardware page this is what shows the following

Identification
Vendor: ‎Super Top

Description: ‎USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE

Disk identifier: ‎??????????

Media class: ‎hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))

Bus identification
Vendor ID: ‎0x14cd

Device ID: ‎0x6600

Sub vendor ID: ‎0x0000

Sub device ID: ‎0x0000

Connection
Bus: ‎SCSI (USB) (5)

Channel: ‎0

Logical unit number: ‎0

Device
Old device file: ‎/dev/sda

Misc
Device USB ID: ‎3

Geometry: ‎// (CHS)

Disk controller: ‎2

Module: ‎usb-storage (usb-storage)


when i click to set current driver i get error message that the driver has no configuration parameters

how to show that?
btw it was formatted to NTFS by windows and its not devided

Hi drhadidy,

Have you tried mounting the drive from the command line? What do you get when you type
?

Did you ever successfully mount other NTFS disks (USB or other) on this system?

All the best,
f

well i have a dual boot on mhuy laptop so the windows part of hard disk is mounted and its ntfs formatted and i use it normally
also a couple of times i connected other usb hard disks ntfs formatted and as soon as they r plugged in i see the icon showing on my desktop and i could access them normally
but this one doesnt show up not on desktop not in file explorers...
when i typed the command u asked i got this

[drhadidy@localhost Desktop]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost Desktop]# dmesg | tail
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=69.244.32.226 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=171 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=6472 PROTO=UDP SPT=58561 DPT=51706 LEN=151
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=69.244.32.226 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=171 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=6475 PROTO=UDP SPT=58561 DPT=51706 LEN=151
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=292 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=29700 PROTO=UDP SPT=1900 DPT=8008 LEN=272
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=138 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=118
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=69.244.32.226 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=171 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=6557 PROTO=UDP SPT=58561 DPT=51706 LEN=151
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=69.244.32.226 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=118 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=6658 PROTO=UDP SPT=58561 DPT=51706 LEN=98
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=83.233.168.100 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=71 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=113 ID=61599 PROTO=UDP SPT=50050 DPT=51706 LEN=51
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=69.244.32.226 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=171 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=6757 PROTO=UDP SPT=58561 DPT=51706 LEN=151
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:91:13:8e:97:00:04:ed:0d:61:d9:08:00 SRC=24.77.242.201 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=292 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=31322 PROTO=UDP SPT=61281 DPT=51706 LEN=272
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.100 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=138 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=118


what now u think?
thx a lot

Hi drhadidy,

Thanks. Good to hear you are using other NTFS systems, so there shouldn't be a general problem here.

Well, the output you got there shows network events only. Now, can you plug in the USB drive and then run the command about 10 seconds later. It should show you some messages concerning whether the drive is detected or not. Also, as root type
And then see what output you get in that shell after plugging in the drive.

All the best,
f