Portable Drive Bay 2000 & Ubuntu 11.10 Question

[Bill Z]

Can anyone help with some step by step how to?

Story goes like this; I have this Acer Aspire One NetBook running Ubuntu 11.10 with no CD ROM drive. I just bought an Alpha AWUS036NHR USB Wifi antenna. The Linux drivers came on a CD.

I have this USB Portable Drive Bay 2000 FRU 19K4499 that works great on my 2 TPs running Windozzz but is not recognized by Ubuntu 11.10 (Ubuntu won’t even see a drive connected).

Yes, I will copy the CD stuff to a USB stick to get the Alpha going but it would be nice to get the Ubuntu OS to see the drive.

Again, can anyone help with some step by step how to?

[Elchund]

I have used an external drive with ubuntu a lot, with thinkpads and with acer netbook. never had to do anything but plug it in. Try reconnect?

If you open disctools the drive should appear, maybe you need to mount it? Maybe there is some setting in the acers bios that you need to edit?

Tron

[Bill Z]

OK, This seems strange, but with this description, maybe, someone can figure it out.

This Acer Aspire One NetBook running Ubuntu 11.10 does see the IBM USB Portable Drive Bay 2000 only if a SanDisk Cruzer USB stick is used in a different USB port. I tried USB devices with no built in logic and the OS doesn't recognize the Drive Bay. And, the OS will not recognize the Drive Bay just by its self.

Also, after using the SanDisk Cruzer along with the Drive Bay, when I insert the SanDisk Cruzer by its self, the OS associates the SanDisk Cruzer device with the Drive Bay and tells me the CD is connected (when it is not).

I tried restarting and rebooting. The OS still doesn’t see the Drive Bay unless the SanDisk Cruzer is installed. When the Drive Bay is connected with the SanDisk Cruzer, the OS does know the difference and does allow me to access the files in each.

Summary: The Drive Bay can only be seen when a USB stick that has some intelligence is used with it.

So, what is this telling you? Can any one help?