Are you providing the external HDD with sufficient electricity? The Raspberry is most likely not capable of providing enough current...
2014-12-14 19:30 GMT+02:00 Gabor Szabo <ga...@szabgab.com>: > > So finally I install the Raspberry Pi I bought a few weeks ago and wanted > to add an external HDD. > I plugged in the external hard drive and /var/log/syslog printed the > following: > > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 759.981949] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB > device number 8 using dwc_otg > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.163364] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, > idVendor=1058, idProduct=0820 > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.163398] usb 1-1.3: New USB device > strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5 > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.163414] usb 1-1.3: Product: My Passport > 0820 > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.163429] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Western > Digital > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.163444] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: > 57583431413432454363833 > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.169522] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: USB Mass > Storage device detected > > Dec 14 17:02:55 pi kernel: [ 760.181935] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0 > > Dec 14 17:02:56 pi kernel: [ 761.183065] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access > WD My Passport 0820 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 > > Dec 14 17:02:56 pi kernel: [ 761.187365] scsi 0:0:0:1: Enclosure > WD SES Device 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 > > Dec 14 17:02:56 pi kernel: [ 761.189473] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up > disk... > > Dec 14 17:02:56 pi kernel: [ 761.277106] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi > generic sg0 type 0 > > Dec 14 17:02:56 pi kernel: [ 761.278094] scsi 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi > generic sg1 type 13 > > > But then when I try to run > > > $ sudo fdisk /dev/sda > > I get > > fdisk: unable to open /dev/sda: No such device or address > > $ ls -l /dev/sda > > brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 0 Dec 14 17:21 /dev/sda > > $ sudo fdisk -l > > only lists the sdcard > > > The external disk is brand new and it has NTFS on it. I have not handled > disk in linux for a long time, but a I recall I am supposed to use fdisk to > partition it and then use mkfs.ext4 to format. > > > So what am I missing here? > > > Gabor > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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