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This is my first Question in this forum.

I am not able to mount or see the external device(Sea gate 500Gb) Harddisk) getting mounted in Ubuntu 10.04.

Following is the output of dmesh | tail .

[ 6875.890111] usb 2-1.1: USB disconnect, address 5
[ 6885.070521] usb 2-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 6885.183109] usb 2-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 6885.183772] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 6885.183970] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 6885.183977] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 6890.173034] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 6890.173792] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Seagate  FreeAgent GoFlex 0148 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 6890.175306] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 6890.175961] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773167 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 6890.177603] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 6890.177615] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
[ 6890.177623] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6890.179752] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6890.179765]  sdb: sdb1
[ 6890.247128] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6890.247139] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

fdisk -l output:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes
1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15504335 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 63 * 512 = 32256 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc5f3974b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 15504256 488384032+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

also I see nothign in the media folder in the File Browser . plz assit. Rgds, Softy

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Do you have any partitions on the disk? Can you attach the output of sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb ? – Sergey May 9 '12 at 7:51
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes 1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15504335 cylinders Units = cylinders of 63 * 512 = 32256 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc5f3974b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2 15504256 488384032+ 7 HPFS/NTFS I have I tihnk,I was able to plug and play the harddisk few days back.I did some upgrade and since then it is happening like this. – softy May 9 '12 at 7:56
Well, it looks like Ubuntu sees your disk and the partition, it's only auto-mounting does not work (provided you do know that there's an icon appears in the right column of the file browser and you can click that icon to open the disk... you know that, right? Can you make a screenshot of your file browser with disk attached?) As a workaround you can just mount the disk manually with something like sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk – Sergey May 9 '12 at 8:05
yes I know tha icon thing.There is no Icon for that.Neither there is any content in the /media.You still want the snapshot.?i can do that.. – softy May 9 '12 at 8:28
This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps add more detail to your question? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. Thanks! – Mochan Jan 14 at 3:58

closed as too localized by Ringtail, hhlp, qbi, Chris Wilson, Scaine Jan 14 at 21:06

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