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USB External Storage not detected at Bootup

Asked by Weinerbarn

I just upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04. Everything was working prior to the upgrade. I have an External USB attached Hard Drive which I have added to fstab by it's UUID ... actually it was in there from before the upgrade. When the system comes up, the drive is not visible. If I issue a "sudo mount - a" I get an error that UUID xxxxx is not found. If I power cycle the drive and then reissue the command, the drive works as normal. This only became an issue after 9.04 and occurs during reboots.

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Ahmed Toulan (thelinuxer) said : 		#1

I guess you need to file a bug report about this since it doesn't seem normal.

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Please try adding usb_storage to /etc/modules, this fixed the issue for me (tonight, after trying, after seeing your question/bug - Thanks for the motivation!)

The bug report should stay, as the driver should be built into the kernel or loaded automatically already.

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Weinerbarn (brian-trulove) said : 		#3

I added that line and it still does not mount automatically at startup even though it is in fstab. I ran lsmod before and after that line was added and did notice the module was loaded following reboot. It also did not give me an error when issuing a "sudo mount -a" like before. I was able to do this without power cycling the drive. Now I just need it to automatically mount.

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Please post the entire line from /etc/fstab which should be mounting the
 drive. You can X out the uuid=XXXX if you would like.

I think the main part of the problem is solved, and it is now not
mounting due to an fstab issue.

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Weinerbarn (brian-trulove) said : 		#5

The only reason I don't think it's an fstab issue is that it mounts after issuing a "mount -a" which is just like re-running the fstab.

# My Book
UUID=9389-61CD /media/MyBook vfat defaults 0 0

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#6

Is this a Western Digital MyBook? That is exactly the drive I had that
did not work at boot.

I have an idea which may work, try commenting out it's fstab entry
completely (# before the line). It should (fingers crossed) be mounted
automatically by hal and gnome to /media/disk and show up on your desktop.

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garryb (garryowen11) said : 		#7

I have the same problem, I have two systems, one level 8.04 and this works great,also with windows XP.
Have upgraded this system to 9.04 and drive not seen. All other USB stuff works.
A 40 gb external drive.

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garryb (garryowen11) said : 		#8

Did some expermenting, Reloaded the m/c with level 8.04 and drive still not
found.But works great on another m/c(an AMD board. So reloaded failing
system with 9:04 and still fails,. It is not a Ubuntu level problem. The
system that fails has a ASRock board Wolfdale1333-d667 R2.0 Tested the ports
with camera's etc and can find nothing else that fails.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, garryb
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> Question #68089 on Ubuntu changed:
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> garryb proposed the following answer:
> I have the same problem, I have two systems, one level 8.04 and this
> works great,also with windows XP.
> Have upgraded this system to 9.04 and drive not seen. All other USB stuff
> works.
> A 40 gb external drive.
>
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