Comment 4 for bug 109563

Actually, the problem was neither in the desktop machine, nor in the USB HD. It got solved in the most curious of ways. One guy told me to try the HD not in the USB port on the front panel, but on the back of the cabinet, he said he has seen this happen. I did it, and that very moment it got connected and mounted. I don't know why. Maybe the amount of current supplied to the USB port in the front panel was inadequate for this high-speed USB HD. And I browsed the documentation of the motherboard. It is not there too, about any difference in the amount of electricity. But it happened. And maybe, because the current was inadequate, it was taking very very long for 'dmesg' to report the drive and its specification.

Pasting the 'dmesg' portion here, if it is of any help to anybody:

[ 724.672031] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 724.805010] usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 724.950485] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 724.966149] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 724.966297] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 724.966410] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 724.966415] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 724.966665] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 724.966669] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 729.963824] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 729.964650] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM Toshiba USB 2.0 CD-ROM 1.15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 729.966150] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Toshiba USB 2.0 Ext. HDD 1.15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 730.020711] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 730.020866] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 730.020952] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[ 730.023495] SCSI device sdc: 156250072 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
[ 730.024574] sdc: Write Protect is off
[ 730.024578] sdc: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 730.024583] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 730.025705] SCSI device sdc: 156250072 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
[ 730.026572] sdc: Write Protect is off
[ 730.026577] sdc: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 730.026579] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 730.026586] sdc: sdc1
[ 730.052996] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi disk sdc
[ 730.053082] sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 730.826216] ReiserFS: sdc1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[ 730.826869] ReiserFS: sdc1: using ordered data mode
[ 730.833859] ReiserFS: sdc1: journal params: device sdc1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[ 730.837014] ReiserFS: sdc1: checking transaction log (sdc1)
[ 730.920128] ReiserFS: sdc1: Using r5 hash to sort names

And, 'lsusb' shows it as:

Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0930:0b06 Toshiba Corp.