Western Digital Mybook on Ubuntu

[winterbear]

I have recently tried to mount a WD Mybook Premium 320GB external HD to my Ubuntu machine. The computer does not recognise it at all. No listing in lsusb, mount or fdisk. It is formatted in fat32 with genealogy data (very important to my wife). I hope someone has a clue.

results of sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9dc96e9e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7293 58580991 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 30.8 GB, 30758289408 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3739 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbb34bb34

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 3648 29302528+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 3649 3739 730927 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 3649 3739 730926 82 Linux swap / Solaris

results of lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0053 Microsoft Corp. Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 041e:413e Creative Technology, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:2e12 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Jack

[rokytnji]

Since it does not show up in fdisk -l (though I don't know what sdb is on your system. I am guessing you run Ubuntu on a external drive)

I would wonder about connection cable (on external drive) or USB port on said computer. My external drives all auto mount in Ubuntu 10.04 from external usb 1 TB sata to 250 gig IDE external USB to Pendrives, to SD Flash.

So does any other drive (like a pendrive) automount ok and is picked up in fdisk -l (on your Ubuntu machine) or is it only that drive? Does that drive auto mount fine in another computer?

Sounds like a hardware glitch to me like connection or power problems of some sort. Just a guess though.

[devils casper]

Plug-in External Hard Disk and execute this in Terminal :

tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages

Post output here.

[winterbear]

rokytnji--
no I run Ubuntu dual boot on a second internal drive. And the external drive work when I boot in windows on the same machine.

[winterbear]

jack@jack-desktop:~$ tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
Aug 22 09:17:26 jack-desktop kernel: [ 24.057005] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Aug 22 09:17:26 jack-desktop kernel: [ 24.060161] e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Aug 22 09:17:26 jack-desktop kernel: [ 24.060450] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Aug 22 09:17:32 jack-desktop kernel: [ 30.035724] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
Aug 22 09:17:32 jack-desktop kernel: [ 30.035745] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Aug 22 09:17:32 jack-desktop kernel: [ 30.035785] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Aug 22 09:17:36 jack-desktop kernel: [ 34.808499] usb 1-2: usbfs: interface 1 claimed by usblp while 'usb' sets config #1
Aug 22 09:18:02 jack-desktop pulseaudio[1505]: ratelimit.c: 4 events suppressed
Aug 22 09:23:06 jack-desktop kernel: [ 364.492046] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Aug 22 09:23:06 jack-desktop kernel: [ 364.636061] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice