External hard disk not recognised!

[Yvan300]

Hello I have a 36gb netdisk ndas mini formatted in ntfs and for some reason it is not recognized by ubuntu. The activity led is constantly on and maybe this info could help.

lsusb
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 12c8:1f05
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

and

fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 11 88326 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 6000 6947 7614810 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 12 5999 48098610 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 6948 7296 2803342+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 6948 7296 2803311 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

This information was taken while the drive was plugged in.
Please help!

[kevinbeard]

NDAS devices are not currently supported on 9.04 I'm afraid.

They work fine with 8.10 but until someone fixes the driver they remain broken

See:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=ndas&page=2

and

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=ndas&page=3

[Yvan300]

Oh sorry fo that, i actually made this thread when i was using ibex, but in jaunty my external drive works great, thanks for your help