Comment 0 for bug 1074990

I got a portable drive bay 2000 in hopes of using it as an external DVD/Zip/LS120 drive through USB, but it appears that Ubuntu can't recognized the drive. With a laptop it works fine through the PCMCIA card, but the USB connection does not work. Through USB it uses a ScanLogic Corp. SL11R-IDE IDE Bridge which is likely the issue, but I've heard that it works fine with CD drives and other removable storage as opposed to multi-partition hard disks.

The USB connection works through a Windows VM (Vista and 7) and my Thinkpad is even able to boot from it. I even tried recompiling the kernel as suggested at: http://askubuntu.com/questions/184076/why-doesnt-the-scanlogic-sl11r-ide-usb-to-ata-adapter-work The change does not seem to fix the issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic 3.5.0-17.28
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: blzut3 3558 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: blzut3 3558 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: blzut3 3558 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
Date: Sun Nov 4 16:48:57 2012
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=88784185-b636-44f3-8d08-7a8489d0a2de
IwConfig:
 ham0 no wireless extensions.

 eth2 no wireless extensions.

 lo no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P55A-UD3
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=4e3cd526-2e0a-4abf-ab37-d4d8bb993853 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.95
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-18 (17 days ago)
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 08/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F11
dmi.board.name: P55A-UD3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF11:bd08/10/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP55A-UD3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP55A-UD3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: P55A-UD3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.