Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2024, 04:57:19 CEST schrieb Will Mengarini: > I have a freshly installed Debian stable and I'm trying to read an > HDD from a previous machine. I put it into a disk enclosure that > connects to the new machine by USB and powered everything up, but the > stable Debian doesn't see the new disk that is connected by USB. Is > there some driver or package that I need to install to make this work?
You say, it is connected by USB. You then should see the device with the command lsusb when the usb-connector is plugged in. However, I have to precice it: You see the controller of the case, you put your HDD in, not the hdd itself! But, if you can see it, first step is done. For further examinations I suggest, to do the following commmand as root tail -f /var/log/syslog in console and then watch its output by pluggin in and pluggin off the usb- case with the built in hdd. It should be detected. If you still can not see the reason, I suggest, for copying the old date using a livefile system like Knoppix, Debian-Live, Kali-Linux, TRK or whatever. With those you might also be able, to check, if you can mount the usb-device at all. If this fails, it looks just like your usb-case is incompatrible, try another one if available. There are some USB3 cases, which can not well switch to USB2-mode. I suppose, it is an IDE-drive, and your controller of the mainboard does have no more IDE-port, does it? For more hints, i need more information., but that is, what comes in my mind at the moment. Hope, it helps though. Best regards and good luck! Hans
