Martin, Thanks for your answer.
--- Martin Br�ggebors
Could you please post the part of the logfile where your /dev/sd... is recognized?
Actually it never got recognized as /dev/sd... my system just recognize it as an USB storage device using address 6. See below: May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using address 6 May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: Product: USB Mass Storage Device May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: Manufacturer: Myson Century, Inc. May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: SerialNumber: 100 May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 12 22:59:09 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 6 In past, when my PC was recognizing it, the log was: May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using address 3 May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Product: USB Mass Storage Device May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Manufacturer: Myson Century, Inc. May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: SerialNumber: 100 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Vendor: ST38421A Model: Rev: 8.01 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 16498944 512-byte hdwr sectors (8447 MB) May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 16498944 512-byte hdwr sectors (8447 MB) May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 > May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. On 5th May, using the same USB port I got: May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using address 3 May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Product: USB Mass Storage Device May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Manufacturer: Myson Century, Inc. May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: SerialNumber: 100 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Vendor: CzCzCzCz Model: CzCzCzCzCzCzCzCz Rev: CzCz May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdb: unknown partition table May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Vendor: CzCzCzCz Model: CzCzCzCzCzCzCzCz Rev: CzCz May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdc: unknown partition table May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[5742]: new block device /block/sdc May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[5745]: new block device /block/sdb May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[5765]: mount block device /block/sdb May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[5764]: mount block device /block/sdc So the Drive was not recognized... for this reason I changed USB port but same result. Now every time I plug the drive to whatever USB port I got a message similar to the one of the 12th May (maybe changing the scsi address part from 6 to 3)
Another hint: Some USB - devices without a partition on them (eg. recognized as /dev/sda, not as /dev/sda1) do not work.
The hard disk is already partitioned since it was used under Windows and I'd like to copy some data from it. Thanks, Timur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com