I have been running my external drive Seagate STBV20002004.5 for 2.5 years until it started showing read errors. I disassembled it and replaced the HDD with a Samsung HD501LJ (which, I am sure, is functional). After I reassembled the drive, Linux wouldn't detect it upon connection.
dmesg:
[ 3278.581016] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci
[ 3278.697200] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3312
[ 3278.697204] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3278.697207] usb 1-6: Product: Expansion Desk
[ 3278.697209] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: Seagate
[ 3278.697212] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: NA4LKLZQ
[ 3278.697472] usb-storage 1-6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 3278.697816] scsi host4: usb-storage 1-6:1.0
[ 3279.697820] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Expansion Desk 0319 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 3279.698381] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 3287.367997] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, device number 8
[ 3287.374070] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 3287.374074] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available.
[ 3287.374091] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3287.374096] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[ 3287.374116] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[ 3287.374118] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3287.374332] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 3287.374335] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available.
[ 3287.374349] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Is there anything I can do to make it work?
