Can't detect an external 500GB HDD

[Vladimir Ivanov]

I fixed the problem at least on one of my machines.
It was:
a) SATA port was not enabled in BIOS ... AND
b) when I was connecting through a USB cable the SATA cable still hanging 
connected into the port on HDD drive. Interesting to note that it was not 
connected to the SATA port on the computer. When I just pulled the cable out 
of the SATA port of HDD my PC immidiately recognized the drive. I guess there 
is some intelligent built into this external HDD drive to allow you only one 
connection at a time.

Vladimir

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:49:49 pm Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Vladimir <vladimir at highskytech.com> wrote:
> > I did dmesg | tail before and after plugged the device in. No change in
> > output.
> > I have suspicious it's either a problem with computer BIOS or will
> > investigate kernel.
> >
> > Thanks anyway,
>
> Have you tried it on all your USB ports? Could be a defective port.
>
> / Jonas


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