Geexbox on cubox don't see external harddisk anymore

[cigno5.5Member]

Hi to all,
I have a strange problem with geexbox (devel) on cubox.

During last days I configured my geexbox to use an external hd attached via USB. In detail the HD is the one from my old laptop inside an adapter which expose both USB and eSata port.

During early days it works perfectly but I noticed some strange mount/unmount sequence and I guessed that it was a cable fault. Instead to buy a new USB cable I bought an eSata cable. I attached the HD via eSata but I got no life signals: hd led was off and geexbox didn’t see it.

So I bought a new USB cable and I attached the HD to cubox and now led works but geexbox don’t see it!! What’s happen?

lsusb and fdisk shows nothing!

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/mtdblock0: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/mtdblock0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
106 heads, 30 sectors/track, 2435 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3180 * 512 = 1628160 bytes
        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1   *           1        2436     3871232  83 Linux
# 

can anyone help me? Do I have to reinstall geexbox from scratch?

[tomlohaveMember]

Hello,

test the usb cable with your external disk on another pc. If it works, maybe it’s Geexbox or Cubox the problem.
If it doesn’t work. maybe the problem is your disk / cable / or adapter.

[Warped RudiMember]

I attached the HD via eSata but I got no life signals: hd led was off and geexbox didn’t see it.

How did you power it ?

[cigno5.5Member]

How did you power it ?

ops…. I didn’t!

I didn’t think that esata doesn’t have “self power” as the USB port!
Thank you for the trick! I’ll try to power it.

Meanwhile I would like to inform you that I think the USB port of the HD adapter is gone! Yesterday, before writing here, I tried attaching it to my laptop and it worked. But today, after your answers, I tried it again and it don’t work anymore! I Think it’s damaged.

Now I’ll try to attach it via esata, after powering it!!

• This reply was modified 4 days, 16 hours ago by  cigno5.5.

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