Re: [PLUG] Old IDE drive on USB enclosure with Linux

[Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>]

Some disks don't like being in master mode if there is not a slave attached--have you tried removing the jumper?

-morgan


On Dec 28, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Edmond Rodriguez wrote:

> 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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