Hello,

I am unable to mount/see the contents of an external USB drive. The mounting/unmounting was working ok until a few weeks ago (sorry can't remember date).

The following diff shows dmesg output after attaching the drive physically;
> usb 6-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> usb 6-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi11 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 7
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD40 0UE-00HCT0 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB)
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB)
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sdb: sdb1
> sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
> sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete


I have looked at various posts and websites with a view to fixing this problem, except I haven't been able to fix it my self.

Uname output: Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6

Help and direction would be most appreciated.

Many thanks