WD Elements Portable 1TB not mounting
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8th May, 2013, 12:00 AM
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WD Elements Portable 1TB not mounting
I have a WD Elements Portable 1TB which I'm connecting to the Pi through a USB hub. Here's both of those products:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005A97APO/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B0ZOCPS/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The Pi boots up fine with the power from the hub however it doesn't seem to recognize the HDD. If I go to Videos -> Add Video Source -> Root filesystem -> media I have a list of directories called usb, usb0, usb1, all the way up to usb7. None of these seem to be the hard drive as when I click on them they show empty directories. Using SSH and running lsusb I get this output: Code: xbian@xbian ~ $ lsusb I don't know what "Standard Microsystems Corp." is but I'm guessing it's not the hard drive. I've also made sure that I have the ntfs-3g package installed and I do. What could be going wrong here? Edit: just made a terrible diagram of my setup here: http://i.imgur.com/c0GGoJq.png |
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8th May, 2013, 12:16 AM
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RE: WD Elements Portable 1TB not mounting
If i understand your diagram you are powering your pi through the usb hub, but you have no connection between the usb hub and one of the pi's usb ports. So you're just using your usb hub as a power adapter now.
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8th May, 2013, 12:47 AM
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RE: WD Elements Portable 1TB not mounting
D'oh, silly mistake. I connected the Pi to the hub via its regular USB ports and it works now. However, I am facing another problem with the drive.
It shows up correctly as a ~930GB drive, but when I click on it XBian says "Path not found or invalid". When doing ls -l on /media I get this output: Code: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 11 17:18 usb -> usb0 While the directory is owned by xbian, could there be read/write permissions gone wrong here? I tried to do chmod 0777 on the directory but the permissions didn't change. Thanks! |
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8th May, 2013, 05:13 AM
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RE: WD Elements Portable 1TB not mounting
Don't know what this could be, normally it automounts as rw. Can you post the output of mount?
Maybe you could try this: Code: sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 /media/usb0 Assuming your harddisk is on /dev/sda1 (check with sudo fdisk -l) Please read rules and do a search before you post! . FAQs . How to post log file? . Looking for answers? Please start here |
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8th May, 2013, 07:55 PM
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RE: WD Elements Portable 1TB not mounting
(8th May, 2013 12:47 AM)Whitey Wrote: go into terminal / ssh, take root id (sudo -i (it will ask for user xbian password again)). your cmd prompt should end with "#" now (eg. root@xbian ~ #) copy and paste results of: 1) blkid [enter] 2) mount | grep usb 3) few bottom lines of 'dmesg | grep -l usb' 4) ls -la /media/usb0/ mk Please read rules and do a search before you post! . FAQs . How to post log file? . Looking for answers? Please start here |
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