[PLUG] Old IDE drive on USB enclosure with Linux

[Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig97.list@gmail.com>]

I have an old 425MB Western Digital Caviar hard disk that mounts
perfectly fine on an old Linux box I have (internal with IDE cable).

When I put it on a usb enclosure box (disk set in Master mode), I get
the following messages in var/log/messages.  I guess it cannot figure
out the size of the drive.
How would I mount it with an enclosure box?  Since I am clearing out
this disk, I am not much worried about it.  I am curious how I would
mount it anyway, since I have been trying to rescue an even older IDE
drive, which may have the same problem.

Dec 28 15:03:44 noname kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 12
Dec 28 15:03:45 noname kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found,
idVendor=13fd, idProduct=1040
Dec 28 15:03:45 noname kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Dec 28 15:03:45 noname kernel: usb 1-1: Product: AC2420H
Dec 28 15:03:45 noname kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Initio
Dec 28 15:03:45 noname kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 0000000000000000W
Dec 28 15:03:45 noname kernel: scsi5 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Initio
 AC2420H          1.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device.
Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte
logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device.
Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel:  sdb:
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x07
driverbyte=0x08
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x4 [current]
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
Dec 28 15:03:50 noname kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code

Thanks for looking,

Edmond Rodriguez
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