On 08/14/2012 07:07 AM, Phil Savoie wrote:

On 08/14/2012 06:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote:

Hi folks.

've got a WinXP system that's got stuffed by a virus. I've put a new HDD in
and started a clean install and now I'm trying to use my (F17) Linux laptop
to copy the files off the old HDD and scan them. However, when I connect the
external USB caddy Linux fails to read the driver, as per the log entries
below.

Can anyone suggest how I can get access to the drive please. There is nothing
physically wrong with the drive and Windows did boot fine when it was in the
PC.

Gary

[root@gary ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.312224] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device
number 2 using ehci_hcd
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.428157] usb 2-2: New USB device found,
idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.428167] usb 2-2: New USB device strings:
Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.428174] usb 2-2: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI
Bridge
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.428180] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: JMicron
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.428185] usb 2-2: SerialNumber:
152D203380B6
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device
2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2"
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 2 was not an MTP device
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.518265] Initializing USB Mass Storage
driver...
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.519174] scsi5 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.519308] usbcore: registered new interface
driver usb-storage
Aug 14 11:25:21 gary kernel: [ 301.519310] USB Mass Storage support
registered.
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.521592] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.523606] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic
sg2 type 0
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.531087] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed,
assume Write Enabled
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.532161] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache
data failed
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.532173] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive
cache: write through
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.535760] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed,
assume Write Enabled
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.536776] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache
data failed
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.536783] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive
cache: write through
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary kernel: [ 302.536788] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI
disk
Aug 14 11:25:22 gary ata_id[1968]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sdb':
Invalid argument
^C
[root@gary ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
fdisk: unable to read /dev/sdb: Invalid argument
[root@gary ~]#

Hi Gary,

Did a quick google search and found this util:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/udisks2.html

Seems to have solved a similar problem for folks using gentoo.
HTH.

Phil

Hello all, my problem is sort of similar but different....see....my problem...(or more truthfully, my sister's problem!) is she's a Windows Admin for a company in CT / NY, she was given a 320GB laptop hard drive that contains pertinent company info on it. She has tried all the tools of her trade to try to get the data off, but to no avail, finally in total despair and frustration she hands me the drive and asks if Linux can do what Windows can't....I can only describe the problem as thus, when I connect the drive to my Fedora Powered laptop (FC17) it can "see" the drive, but it gives me a message saying that I don't have "permission" to access the drive, and that my access is "denied" so......in retrospect, can anyone recommend or instruct me as to what application/program/utility/tool will allow me to sort of "bypass" the permissions set by the NTFS system and give me access to the drive's files? I'm not concerned with preserving the integrity of them....just want to get them off that drive and placed somewhere else, then I intend to blow the drive away.....install it into a Dell....and (of course!) Install the beta version of FC18 on it......any takers?....LoL! And thanks in advance!

EGO II