Re: [Hampshire] USB hard disk not auto-mounting in Ubuntu

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Author: Vic
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] USB hard disk not auto-mounting in Ubuntu
> May 24 11:24:20 ss07 kernel: [910950.967176] scsi 8:0:0:0: scsi:
> Device offlined - not ready after error recovery


Ewww. That's not a good sign...

> I fear the disk is hosed.


Before you do anything too drastic - how are you powering the disk?

If you're trying to power it off a single USB connector, power is marginal
ate best; my housing has a two-connector lead so that it powers off two
ports. And even that has *no hope* on my PCMCIA card...

Vic.