Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives don't use it. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM, shirish =E0=A4=B6=E0=A4=BF=E0=A4=B0=E0=A5= =80=E0=A4=B7 wrote: > Hi all, > This is on a testing machine What happened is I bought a 2 TB Seagate > Backup Plus Slim > couple of days ago. The system is an old system having few USB 2 ports > while the HDD is USB 3 but supposedly backward compatible. I can see > the HDD via lsusb and fdisk but for some reason it's unable to > automount it. Any ideas what could be the issue ? > > Sharing what I saw :- > > $ lsusb > Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > > As can be seen there are few USB 1.1 ports and few 2.0 ports. As can > be seen Seagate attaches and declares itself at Bus 005 Device 003: ID > 0bc2:ab24 . > > I also checked via fdisk -l and got the following :- > > $ sudo fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 =3D 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0xc5f7c5f7 > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sda1 63 102398309 102398247 48.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFA= T > /dev/sda2 102398371 1953523711 1851125341 882.7G f W95 Ext'd (LBA= ) > /dev/sda5 102398373 204796619 102398247 48.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFA= T > /dev/sda6 * 204797952 595421183 390623232 186.3G 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 595423232 790732799 195309568 93.1G 83 Linux > /dev/sda8 790734848 1943076863 1152342016 549.5G 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 1943078912 1953523711 10444800 5G 82 Linux swap / S= olaris > > Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. > > Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary. > > Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary. > > Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398933504 bytes, 3907029167 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 =3D 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0x1bc6b3bc > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sdb1 2048 952322047 952320000 454.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFA= T > /dev/sdb2 952322048 1904642047 952320000 454.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFA= T > /dev/sdb3 1904642048 2856962047 952320000 454.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFA= T > /dev/sdb4 2856962048 3907026943 1050064896 500.7G f W95 Ext'd (LBA= ) > /dev/sdb5 2856964096 3907026943 1050062848 500.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFA= T > > Except for /dev/sdb4 which says it's W95 the rest of them seem to be > ok. Then why it is that the disk does not automount ? > > I have Seagate Expansion disks and they mount under nautilus or any > other file storage viewer but not this. > > Looking forward to know what could possibly be the reason and if it's > not related to the kernel guide me to the proper package for the same. > > Thank you. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal =E0=A4=B6=E0=A4=BF=E0=A4=B0=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7 = =E0=A4=85=E0=A4=97=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=B0=E0=A4=B5=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=B2 > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian= .org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CADdDZRmgd3WgjH4jw9yC4jYuGg-pQFz2siEx2j= aN6-VzSqAC8g@mail.gmail.com > --=20 Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKDXFkO0CgRVuJJuvjkO4y59b+NU19cxB+MVkDqUjDrCXjUtOw@mail.gmail.com