Bug 118007

Summary:	cannot mount 300GB external USB drive
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Voltron Rex <voltron.rex>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	dmesg output after connecting device kernel config

Description Voltron Rex 2006-01-06 02:53:03 UTC

Greetings

Using 2.6.15 (vanilla), and other kernels, I cannot mount my new 300GB drive. It's a Seagate drive, in a USB 2.0 external hard drive case which has its own power supply.

When I connect it the first time (first, power on drive, then connect usb), I get a lot of messages in dmesg (I enabled scsi debug, usb mass storage debug and usb debug in the kernel). I will attach my kernel config and the dmesg text in just a moment.

Comment 1 Voltron Rex 2006-01-06 03:13:50 UTC

Created attachment 76318 [details]
dmesg output after connecting device

It's also interesting that after the first failed mount, if I unplug the usb and plug it in again, dmesg reports no more action. The usb subsystem does not appear to register that the device is there unless I power off the drive, unplug the usb, power on, plug in the usb. Then I get (again) the errors shown in dmesg.

Comment 2 Voltron Rex 2006-01-06 03:14:30 UTC

Created attachment 76319 [details]
kernel config

Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2006-01-12 05:22:43 UTC

Are you sure your USB to IDE converter supports drives of that size? Can you confirm that it works on another machine/OS?

Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-25 05:52:34 UTC

Please reopen when you respond to comment #3