Many searches and attempts with lots of different software .. in the end I have found that in this case..
- connect elements to usb port
- open the file-system GUI (disk/folder), select 'other locations'
- repeat for all usb ports, without mounting/unmounting necessary as my hd did not even ID respond to
lsusb
or sudo fdisk -l
,
- upon return to original usb port the hd appears
this seems like i haven't tried everything and i was "lucky" as i agree this is a super non-tech way.. but i have found it to be the most consistent out of all other google-search/stack-searched etc.. techniques, PLUS for whatever reason i do not need to sudo mount
in the terminal..?!?
anyway, some good options here if this does not work in your situation
running dmesg
in the terminal with each new port connection also ID'd consistent failure prior to the return to the original usb-port attempt
- connect hd through each port
[12077.405153] usb 1-1-port4: attempt power cycle
[12078.013009] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci
[12078.428897] usb 1-1.4: device not accepting address 12, error -32
[12078.508929] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 13 using ehci-pci
[12078.928992] usb 1-1.4: device not accepting address 13, error -32
[12078.929228] usb 1-1-port4: unable to enumerate USB device
re-connect to original port
[12401.860608] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[12401.884232] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=10b8, bcdDevice=10.12
[12401.884284] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[12401.884289] usb 4-1: Product: Elements 10B8
[12401.884292] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[12401.884296] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 575834314142345232535935
[12401.886519] usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[12401.886828] scsi host2: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
[12402.905140] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Elements 10B8 1012 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[12402.905620] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[12402.907088] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
[12403.928367] .....ready
[12408.025013] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[12408.025568] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[12408.025574] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
[12408.026065] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[12408.026076] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[12408.157584] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[12408.575173] EXT4-fs (sdb): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
udev
rule. – HalosGhost Sep 13 '14 at 17:29/etc/fstab
, using the drive's UUID. This is easy to set up. As @HalosGhost says, there are other better ways to do this, but this is what I have been using. – Faheem Mitha Sep 13 '14 at 17:42/etc/fstab
? – Faheem Mitha Sep 13 '14 at 17:49ultra
edition. Changing the drive filesystem or partition table wont help? I want to make changes on the drive so that it works in every Linux machine. Hope you get my problem. – Indra Sep 13 '14 at 17:57