I have put in a Hitachi 2.5 inch hdd inside a Inateck hdd enclosure. I have connected the enclosure to a Toshiba R630-156 using a usb2 cable on a usb3 enclosure port. I can hear and feel the hard drive is powered but I cannot see any messages in dmesg. i cannot see any related output in lsusb. I have enabled usb_storage kernel module but it does not seem to make any difference. I am not experienced with trouble shooting hardware issues so please refer to some documentation if you are using very specific terms in your explanation. please ask if you need anymore debug information. thanks.$ cat /etc/lsb-releaseDISTRIB_ID=LinuxMintDISTRIB_RELEASE=17DISTRIB_CODENAME=qianaDISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Linux Mint 17 Qiana$ uname -aLinux rag-tos-laptop 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:11:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux$ lsmod | grep usbusb_storage            62209  0 btusb                  32412  0 bluetooth             395423  12 bnep,btusb,rfcommusbhid                 52616  0 hid                   106148  2 hid_generic,usbhid$ lsusbBus 002 Device 004: ID 0930:0214 Toshiba Corp. Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching HubBus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:58f5 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c52e Logitech, Inc.Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching HubBus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubBIOS Information        Vendor: TOSHIBA        Version: Version 1.90          Release Date: 02/24/2011        ROM Size: 2048 kB        Characteristics:                ISA is supported                PCI is supported                PNP is supported                BIOS is upgradeable                BIOS shadowing is allowed                VLB is supported                Boot from CD is supported                Selectable boot is supported                EDD is supported                Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)                3.5/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)                Serial services are supported (int 14h)                Printer services are supported (int 17h)                ACPI is supported                USB legacy is supported                BIOS boot specification is supported                Function key-initiated network boot is supported                Targeted content distribution is supported        BIOS Revision: 1.90        Firmware Revision: 1.40
unrecognized inateck hdd enclosure with linux Mint
linux mint;hard disk;kernel modules;bios
actually, I just realized that when using a usb3 cable and connecting to a usb2 port on the laptop, the device is found and all the partitions are automatically mounted.The problem I had earlier could be from the usb2 cable which could carry only less power than a usb3 device required./dev/sdb5 on /media/r/3c45f792-1630-4866-8a33-1534c115f285 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)/dev/sdb6 on /media/r/ce13cd6c-57bd-4beb-b489-10e2aa2a7876 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)/dev/sdb1 on /media/r/SYSTEM type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)/dev/mapper/vgroup1-mymedia on /media/r/dc1afac9-27cc-4f76-95a6-91f0ac0060ef type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)/dev/mapper/vgroup1-virtualization on /media/r/c71ff7a8-bfee-48e1-9ab1-25e6a8ecd829 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)kernel: [13587.330014]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 >kernel: [13587.333642] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI diskkernel: [13589.035776] EXT4-fs (sdb5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)kernel: [13589.038729] EXT4-fs (sdb6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)kernel: [13592.827240] bio: create slab <bio-1> at 1kernel: [13595.524660] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)kernel: [13598.882851] EXT4-fs (dm-1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)