[ale] WD 120 GB USB drive

[Brian Pitts]

mike barnes wrote:
> Yes, am sure that it is not being mounted. I did not format the drive 
> since it contains my wife's pictures and I would be killed if she lost 
> these pictures.
> 
> What is interesting is that a USB flash drive works perfectly fine while 
> this USB hard drive appears to not event be recognized.
> 
> Mike
>

These may be things you've already checked, but...

Immediately after connecting and powering on in the drive, can you run 
'dmesg | tail' and see if a new scsi device was detected.

Does the drive have a fat or ntfs filesystem?

-Brian