Not found external HDD with Raspberry

Question

I've recently bought 2 HDD (Seagate ST1000LM048 2'5 1To) and 2 Icy Box IB-AC603 (USB 2) to build a little & cheap NAS server with a Raspberry model B+ (tried with version 2 and 3), following this tutorial.

I plug the hdd via USB with the Icy Box on the raspberry and I try the command fdisk -l, result :

pi@worker1:~ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

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Disk /dev/ram15: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 14.9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5ccc5eaa

Device         Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1       8192    98045    89854 43.9M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2      98304 31116287 31017984 14.8G 83 Linux

As you can see : no sda nor sdb. Trying with blkid :

pi@worker1:~ sudo blikd
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="boot" UUID="9304-D9FD" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="5ccc5eaa-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="29075e46-f0d4-44e2-a9e7-55ac02d6e6cc" TYPE=   "ext4" PARTUUID="5ccc5eaa-02"
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="5ccc5eaa" PTTYPE="dos"

Finaly with lsusb :

pi@worker1:~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0424:7800 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Same...

Even worse, i dont found sda nor sdb in /dev/. I've tried to format the two HDD in ntfs on my laptop, I got the same results.

As I see here, I have to throw my two HDD ? That would be a shame... Any idea ?

Thanks,

Answer 1

As an aside, IMHO, you should be using lsblk --fs to learn what drives are plugged in or mounted (BTW, sudo is not required w/ lsblk).

But back to the problem at hand:

It could be power as @Milliways suggests, but I've had expected other flaky behavior if supply voltage dropped below threshold. You also mentioned you don't see the drives on your laptop, so that may further discount the "power theory".

That said, you should double-check the specifications on your "Icy Box", and the other devices you're using:

• Are the Seagate drives SATA III - same as the Icy Box?
• AFAIK, the USB ports on RPi are USB 2.0, but Icy Box spec says USB 3.1... WTFO?

If you're able, you should test the drives by connecting them directly to a PC; i.e. do the drives appear without the Icy Box?

The tutorial you referenced mentioned RAID drives... is that what you plan? If so, you should plan with some greater care; you will almost certainly run into power issues if you try drawing all the power you need for 2 rotating HDDs over the RPi USB port.