Re: Fw: Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-06 Thread James McKenzie
Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 13:33 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > >>> Maybe. However, this drive appears as a USB to SCSI drive. Maybe >>> >> sdc IS the drive, maybe it is not. I've tried connecting two external >> drives via USB and only one was recognized as well. Then

Re: [SOLVED] Hard disk trouble

2010-09-06 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:01 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Ankur Sinha wrote: > >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 7:57 AM > >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > >Subject: Hard disk trouble > > > >hi, > > > >I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB c

Re: Fw: Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-06 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 13:33 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > >Maybe. However, this drive appears as a USB to SCSI drive. Maybe > sdc IS the drive, maybe it is not. I've tried connecting two external > drives via USB and only one was recognized as well. Then again, you > may be correct in that the

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Darr
On Friday, 03 September, 2010 @18:38 zulu, Ankur Sinha scribed: > I'll connect it to a windows machine someplace and check. I have a > feeling the SATA to USB thing *may* be the culprit too. Being an electrician, I would suspect the exceedingly cheap (yet quite efficient and about zero phantom lo

Fw: Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread James Mckenzie
-Forwarded Message- >From: James Mckenzie >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 1:32 PM >To: JD >Subject: Re: Hard disk trouble > >JD wrote: > >[ big snip ] > >>>>> Disconnected, reconnected. Fresh outputs: >>>>> >>>>> dmesg:

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread JD
On 09/03/2010 12:40 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > JD wrote: >> Sent: Sep 3, 2010 10:03 AM >> To: ankursi...@fedoraproject.org, Community support for Fedora >> users >> Subject: Re: Hard disk trouble >> >> >> >> On 09/03/2010 09:42 AM, Ankur Sin

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread James Mckenzie
Ankur Sinha wrote: > >On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:01 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: >> Ankur Sinha wrote: >> >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 7:57 AM >> >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >Subject: Hard disk trouble >> > >> >hi, >> > >

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread James Mckenzie
JD wrote: >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 10:03 AM >To: ankursi...@fedoraproject.org, Community support for Fedora users > >Subject: Re: Hard disk trouble > > > >On 09/03/2010 09:42 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:24 -0700, JD wrote: >>> On 09/03/20

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread James Mckenzie
Ankur Sinha wrote: >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 10:19 AM >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Subject: Re: Hard disk trouble > >On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:03 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: >> $ cat /proc/partitions >> >> If its not in there its not working. That is always the

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread JD
On 09/03/2010 11:38 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:03 -0700, JD wrote: >> What does windoze say when you conect it to windoze? >> >> > I got no windoz ;) > > I'll connect it to a windows machine someplace and check. I have a > feeling the SATA to USB thing *may* be the culprit

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:03 -0700, JD wrote: > What does windoze say when you conect it to windoze? > > I got no windoz ;) I'll connect it to a windows machine someplace and check. I have a feeling the SATA to USB thing *may* be the culprit too. -- Thanks! Regards, Ankur https://fedoraproje

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:03 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > $ cat /proc/partitions > > If its not in there its not working. That is always the first place > to > look if in doubt. > > Good luck! That is bad news! [r...@070905042 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 80

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/03/2010 08:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > hi, > > I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my > laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, > gparted do not show it as a drive. > > Here's the dmesg output: > >> scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 >> scsi 8:

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread JD
On 09/03/2010 09:42 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:24 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 09/03/2010 07:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my >>> laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, >>> gpar

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:24 -0700, JD wrote: > > On 09/03/2010 07:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > hi, > > > > I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my > > laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, > > gparted do not show it as a drive. > > > > Here's

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:01 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Ankur Sinha wrote: > >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 7:57 AM > >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > >Subject: Hard disk trouble > > > >hi, > > > >I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB c

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread JD
On 09/03/2010 07:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > hi, > > I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my > laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, > gparted do not show it as a drive. > > Here's the dmesg output: > >> scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 >> scsi 8:

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 20:27 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 > > scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB TO I DE/SATA Device 0041 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 > > sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 > > sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk Looks like it is sdc, not sdb. What d

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread James Mckenzie
Ankur Sinha wrote: >Sent: Sep 3, 2010 7:57 AM >To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org >Subject: Hard disk trouble > >hi, > >I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my >laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, >g

Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Ankur Sinha
hi, I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, gparted do not show it as a drive. Here's the dmesg output: > scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 > scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB TO I DE/SATA Device 0041 PQ: