Can't Mount Filesystems (except internal HD)

[CA_Warren]

I've posted this on the Ubuntu forums, but received no responses.

I'm using Kubuntu 6.06, and after recently updating some files (the specifics I don't remember - it took me a little while to notice the problem) and Automatix, my system will not mount my external hard drive, iPod, or SD drive (which is internal).

However, it will still recognize all of the above - they show up under /media, and when inserted I get a 'Detected new medium. What would you like to do?' prompt. However, if I select 'open in a new folder', or anything else that would require mounting the device, I get 'Internal Error', 'Unknown Error', etc.

So I can see all of my devices, but cannot mount them.

The portion of dmesg upon trying to boot my external hard drive looks like this:

[4380356.690000] usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[4380356.740000] 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[4380356.740000] FAT: bread failed in fat_clusters_flush
[4380365.646000] usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[4380365.763000] scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4380365.764000] usb-storage: device found at 3
[4380365.764000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4380370.768000] Vendor: WDC WD12 Model: 00JB-00GVA0 Rev: 0000
[4380370.768000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision : 00
[4380370.770000] SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
[4380370.770000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4380370.771000] SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
[4380370.771000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[4380370.771000] sdb: sdb1
[4380370.793000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
[4380370.793000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[4380370.795000] usb-storage: device scan complete

Any ideas? I keep home on a different partition, so I've reinstalled the Kubuntu base, but everytime I upgrade things back to recent-ness devices can't be mounted again.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[CA_Warren]

Re: Can't Mount Filesystems (except internal HD)

I also tried the steps given here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/...p/t-86298.html.

Here's the printout from fdisk -l:

cawarren@cawarren-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7752 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 694 5246608+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 695 763 521640 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 764 2150 10485720 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2151 7752 42351120 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14593 117218241 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

So it sees the USB external hard drive. But when I hit "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/", it mounts the external and unmounts my first partition (Windows) on the hard drive. If I give the same command, except to re-mount the Windows partition, it unmounts the USB HD.

And so it goes.

Also, later in the link above they seem to give the remedy to the situation by putting a line into /etc/fstab...but I have no idea how to write such a line that'd make my computer work back how it was supposed to. Again, any help would be awesome. Thanks a lot for your time.