On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:25:04 +1000, Piers via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
On 30/8/19 1:19 pm, Terry Duell via luv-main wrote:
Hello All, I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been used with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling.
Does the drive have a propriety connection software (eg: security system) in Windows?
Unplug it - plug it in and send the last few lines of (in terminal):
dmesg
OK...that did something! As soon as I ran dmesg the drive icon appeared on the desktop and I can now access all the files...amazing. Not sure why, but it may be a solution. Yet to see if it's repeatable. Here's the last few lines from dmesg... [ 7413.669770] usb 4-3.1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd [ 7413.682284] usb 4-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=55aa, bcdDevice= 1.00 [ 7413.682285] usb 4-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [ 7413.682286] usb 4-3.1: Product: ASMT1051 [ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: Manufacturer: asmediag [ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: SerialNumber: 1234567890B7 [ 7413.683330] usb-storage 4-3.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 7413.683393] usb-storage 4-3.1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 55aa: 400000 [ 7413.683427] scsi host8: usb-storage 4-3.1:1.0 [ 7414.595778] . [ 7414.724129] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access ASMT 2105 0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 7414.724360] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0 [ 7414.725081] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 7415.619771] .ready [ 7415.621258] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/699 GiB) [ 7415.621260] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] 4096-byte physical blocks [ 7415.621357] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off [ 7415.621358] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 7415.621517] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 7415.621678] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (4096 bytes) [ 7415.651278] sde: sde1 sde2 sde3 [ 7415.652518] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk [terry@localhost ~]$ Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell