[arch-general] usb disk not visible

[Manolo Martínez]

On 04/09/12 at 06:04pm, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I have a problem with an external USB disk here, which is a WD 500Gb
> bought last year.
> 
> Recently I decided finally to format it to ext3, since I'm using Linux
> everywhere, but now I don't seem to see it from my dell latitude.
> 
> On my mini dell everything works perfectly, but on the latitude I get
> only this from dmesg
> 
> [ 8916.825474] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 11
> [ 8917.013895] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
> [ 8919.126604] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 12
> [ 8919.314274] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 13 using ehci_hcd
> 
> and fdisk doesn't detect anything:
> [andrea at dell]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Any idea of what it could be?

udisks --enumerate shows it? I'm sure you have looked into it, but any chance
that it's in, say, /dev/sdc?