Adding a USB TrekStor hard drive

[Michael Jones]

Hi

I have just purchased a TrekStore USB hard drive. The PC sees the drive but get the following message when I try to access it:

libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set.

process 4074: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.

error: could not execute pmount


Does anyone have a idea as to what I should do?

Thanks

Michael

[glaston]

What did you do?
Just plug the drive in?

Did you edit your fstab, and assign a mount point?
Did you research the error message?

[bigtomrodney]

Can you run dmesg directly after plugging the drive in and post back the output? Also run /sbin/fdisk -l (that's a lowercase L) while the drive is plugged in.

[Michael Jones]

I just plugged it in. I did not edit the fstab and assign a mount point.
No I have not researched the error. However, I seem to think the problem is to do with the PC than the USB hard drive and is related to allowing the operating system to see and access the drive.

[Michael Jones]

Can you run dmesg directly after plugging the drive in and post back the output? Also run /sbin/fdisk -l (that's a lowercase L) while the drive is plugged in.

Typing in the commnad:
/sbin/fdisk -l

had no effect


The contents of the dmesg file is:

--text starts
mrj2@devpc:~$ dmesag
bash: dmesag: command not found
mrj2@devpc:~$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.18-6-486 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 Mon Aug 18 08:05:56 UTC 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff8000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fb820
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa490
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff0030
ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000009 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff00c0
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA VIA_K7 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
Detected 1666.862 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 229376
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 901712k/917504k available (1499k kernel code, 15224k reserved, 599k data, 256k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3337.23 BogoMIPS (lpj=6674472)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: CLK_CTL MSR was 6003d22f. Reprogramming to 2003d22f
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping 01
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 4642k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdaf1, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by vt8235 PM
PCI quirk: region 0400-040f claimed by vt8235 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: dde00000-dfefffff
PREFETCH window: bdd00000-ddcfffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1223572515.912:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states)
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 10 to 9
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 169, io base 0x0000e000
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.1 July-24-2006 Written by Donald Becker
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 5 to 9
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 169, io base 0x0000e400
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 5 to 9
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 169, io base 0x0000e800
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 11 to 9
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 169, io mem 0xdffff700
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: Unable to derive IRQ for device 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A]: no GSI
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 15
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
hdb: ASUS DVD-E616P2, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1d800, 00:11:5b:06:ce:a1, IRQ 177.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[185] MMIO=[dffff800-dfffffff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
hdd: max request size: 128KiB
hdd: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
hdd: cache flushes supported
hdd:<6>hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd1 hdd2
Attempting manual resume
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0001080037037a32]
eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KM400/KM400A chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
irda_init()
NET: Registered protocol family 23
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input2
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Adding 2650684k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2650684k
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda9, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Vendor: TrekStor Model: DataStation 8 Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: TrekStor Model: DataStation 8 Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete

--text ends--

[unclesirbobby]

I have a trekstor hd. Its maybe an old type of usb had. I needed a program to install it on windows. It was not the usual type of usb disk which is automatically detected

[glaston]

It's not spitting errors out pertaining to the drive.

usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: TrekStor Model: DataStation 8 Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete

I take it that it's a 160GB drive, right?
It's using SCSI emulation, and the drive name that Linux has it at is "sda".
Which means you should be able to find it in /dev/sda.
You should be able to edit your fstab and assign a mount point such as /mnt/sda1.

Have you tried this yet?
One other question, was the drive already formatted before you plugged it into the linux box?
If so, what filesystem is on it?

If it's not formatted, you won't be able to access it until it is.
Have you tried to get to it with cfdisk?

[Michael Jones]

It's not spitting errors out pertaining to the drive.




I take it that it's a 160GB drive, right?
It's using SCSI emulation, and the drive name that Linux has it at is "sda".
Which means you should be able to find it in /dev/sda.
You should be able to edit your fstab and assign a mount point such as /mnt/sda1.

Have you tried this yet?
One other question, was the drive already formatted before you plugged it into the linux box?
If so, what filesystem is on it?

If it's not formatted, you won't be able to access it until it is.
Have you tried to get to it with cfdisk?

Appologies for delay in replying, I have been ill.

I have not tried editting the fstab yet. I have done this with Fedora as root user can log on from the gui. My debian does not allow root to log on from the gui; and I haven't found how to do this from the dos prompt yet.

The file format is vfat (is this another name for NTFS?). I seem to think this will be a read-only, but this is fine for the purpose I will be using it for. I can write to it via an XP box.

The disk is already formatted. I seem to think if I reformat using anything other than NTFS the disk might become useless.

I have just tried using Disks Manager and located /dev/sda1 and it is the usb disk drive. Also, Disks Manager allows me to view files on the disk. Perhaps this is a long way round, but for a newbie to Debian, it works.

Thanks for the lead. I seem to think this problem has been resolved.

Micvhael