External USB3.0 HDD not working on Intel H87 (C2)

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:16:59 +0200
poma wrote:

> First you should check the BIOS version and eventually upgrade it.
> $ su -c "dmidecode -t bios"
> $ su -c "dmidecode -t baseboard"

I just killed an asus motherboard by precisely following their
bios upgrade instructions and had to order a new bios chip,
so I'd put bios upgrades at the very bottom of any list of
things to do.

The first things I'd try would be:

A. Different USB port and/or cables

B. Boot off a live CD some utterly different linux version
   (knoppix is always good) and see if it can see it. If it
   can, there whatever is going on is strictly a software