I have an external hard drive that will not show up when I plug it in. It shows up in windows, as a little popup that says that the usb device cannot be recognized.
I saw this thread. I don't know if it would help...
Code:
zach@zach-laptop:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 165.536079] usb 1-2: device not accepting address 8, error -62
[ 165.712079] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9
[ 166.120072] usb 1-2: device not accepting address 9, error -62
[ 166.120926] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[ 166.122109] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 166.168632] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 166.268303] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 166.316096] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 167.079010] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 167.128352] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
zach@zach-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for zach:
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xae32ae32
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4701 37760751 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4702 4864 1309297+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4702 4864 1309266 82 Linux swap / Solaris
zach@zach-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 36G 5.8G 28G 18% /
tmpfs 219M 0 219M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 219M 328K 219M 1% /var/run
varlock 219M 0 219M 0% /var/lock
udev 219M 2.7M 217M 2% /dev
tmpfs 219M 80K 219M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 219M 2.0M 217M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/volatile
zach@zach-laptop:~$
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