On 11/17/2009 10:07 PM, Kussh Singh wrote:
Am using ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop. Have also tried with ubuntu 8.10 and 9.10. System is unable to detect and connect to a USB external drive--make is seagate, capacity is 250 GB, model is called freeagent.
Have also tried the device in windows7 where it is also not detected.
The external drive can be felt to be running as its whirring sound can be felt. Also it glows from the top due to some LEDs which shine thru holes on the top of the drive's cover.
I hope I am wrong but I think what you have is a damaged disk.
To verify what is happening, open a terminal and execute $ tail -f /var/log/messages
Now connect the disk and then check the output on the terminal, if the system detects /anything/ connected to the USB port the event would be logged. If the system detects the disk but start complaining with something like 'DiskReadError' (I don't know the exact strings ...but something to that effect) ...then it's time to dig out that warranty card/purchase receipt.
If you don't get any such messages, paste the messages you get here and we can debug this further.
cheers, - steve