Hard drive not mounting

[antonio montagnani]

Mikkel L. Ellertson ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 
08/07/2012 16:57:
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> On 07/08/2012 01:35 AM, antonio montagnani wrote:
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>> when I connect an external HD (powered) I get:
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>>> lsusb
>>> Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0728 Microsoft Corp.
>>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40:0101 TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY INC. USB-2.0
> 4-Port HUB
>>> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04e8:3268 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
> ML-1610 Mono Laser Printer
>>> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
>>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>> Bus 002 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 004 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 001 Device 000: ID 059f:0651 LaCie, Ltd
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>> Lacie is the hD, but it is not mounted!!!
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> OK - that is not a hub problem. The hub is working. If it wasn't,
> you would not see the hard drive.
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> Now we need to find out way the drive is not getting mounted. The
> first thing I would do is run "fdisk -l" and see if the partitions
> on the drive are detected properly. You can also look in
> /var/log/messages to see what the system is doing when you plug in
> the drive.
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> If the drive is detected properly, then we move to why it is not
> being mounted. For that, the first thing we need to know is the
> desktop you are running. (Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, etc.) From there, we
> can tell you what settings to check. It is possible to turn off
> auto-mounting.
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> Mikkel
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Mikkel

tnx for help.

Please check also my reply to Jack.

I made another test, I connected also another USB disk and an usbstick: 
neither are listed!!!Only the Lacie USB disk seems to be listed.





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