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 again, you >> may be correct in that the drive is dead. >> >>> One question to the OP, does it appear that the drive is 'spinning >>> >> up' that is is the drive's motor starting? If not, then the drive may >> not be receiving enough power through the USB connection to come up to >> speed and thus would not appear as existing on the system. That was >> the case when I tried to use an external case and I had to get >> 'better' USB ports to run it. >> >>> I'm just trying to help eliminate the hardware side of the problem >>> >> equation. Sometimes the simplest things are the one's we overlook >> (like an upside down connector cable of which I've been a victim of >> <BSEG>. Fortunately, the drive was not fried by this. >> >>> James McKenzie >>> > > hi, > > I've run it all over again. > > I removed all my USB stuff. Only plugged in my hard disk using a SATA to > USB converter. The converter that I bought also has a external power > chord which I've attached to the hard disk as well. This is all the info > I got. At this time, only one of my USB ports is in use. > > [root@070905042 ~]# dmesg > usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 > usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0718 > usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=2 > usb 1-1: Product: USB Storage > usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 000000000033 > scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0 > 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 sg2 type 0 > sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk > [remainder removed] Looks like the drive is dead. Again, if you pick it up, does it feel like it is vibrating, indicating that it spun up? If not then it is. The SATA to USB adaptor may be working just fine, but with this drive it is impossible to tell if it is. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
