[DONE] Seagate external drive recognized but not mounting

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[DONE] Seagate external drive recognized but not mounting

Postby nightwhale » Oct 2nd, '16, 08:25

I am trying to connect a Seagate Expansion external drive to my Mageia 5. When I plug in the drive, the kernal seems to recognize it but then all action stops pass that. I can see the device on lsusb but it fails to appear on fdisk.

Here is the dmesg after I plug in a FAT32 usb stick that does mount correctly and then the external drive
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[ 4651.470562] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 4651.912037] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=05dc, idProduct=a815
[ 4651.912044] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 4651.912049] usb 2-1.2: Product: USB Flash Drive
[ 4651.912052] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Lexar
[ 4651.912054] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: AALF1MMXUMVDE3V1
[ 4651.925310] usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 4651.925390] scsi host8: usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
[ 4651.925484] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 4653.977154] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Lexar    USB Flash Drive  1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 4653.977935] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 30670848 512-byte logical blocks: (15.7 GB/14.6 GiB)
[ 4653.978812] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 4653.978816] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 4653.979707] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 4653.979709] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 4653.984315]  sdb: sdb1
[ 4653.987570] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 4654.167845] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 5194.611566] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 7
[ 5197.154893] usbcore: deregistering interface driver usb-storage
[ 5565.133104] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci
[ 5565.300304] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=231a
[ 5565.300307] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 5565.300308] usb 1-1.2: Product: Expansion
[ 5565.300310] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Seagate
[ 5565.300311] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: NA820204


Here is lsusb
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Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b2ea Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Integrated Camera [ThinkPad]
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bc2:231a Seagate RSS LLC
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


here is sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/ram0: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram1: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram2: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram3: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram4: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram5: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram6: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram7: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram8: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram9: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram10: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram11: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram12: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram13: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram14: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/ram15: 31.3 MiB, 32768000 bytes, 64000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xef6fdcbc

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048   3074047   3072000   1.5G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2         3074048 265218047 262144000   125G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       265218048 527349689 262131642   125G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4       527364054 976771071 449407018 214.3G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       527364096 976771071 449406976 214.3G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.


and here is lsmod | grep usb
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usb_storage            69632  0
btusb                  45056  0
btrtl                  16384  1 btusb
btbcm                  16384  1 btusb
btintel                16384  1 btusb
bluetooth             483328  9 bnep,btbcm,btrtl,btusb,btintel
usbcore               237568  5 btusb,uvcvideo,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore


My suspicion is that I don't have the correct driver, however I am unsure how to go about fixing this. I looked online for the specific Seagate drivers but did not find much. It also works perfectly fine on a Windows.
Last edited by nightwhale on Oct 3rd, '16, 05:30, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: NTFS usb external drive recognized but not mounting

Postby nightwhale » Oct 2nd, '16, 21:31

this same problem was brought up last year and a solution found. The Seagate Expansion drive requires the uas kernal module to be loaded, which is blacklisted by defualt and listed as broken. The fix is simply to load it with

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sudo modprobe uas


and then take it off the blacklist in
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/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_ide.conf


here is a full discussion: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=9835
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Re: NTFS usb external drive recognized but not mounting

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 3rd, '16, 04:18

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks
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