need help mounting USB (solved)

[Llillithd]

Long story short, I tried to install a SATA dvd drive (which kept the system from booting at all) and when I put everything back to where it started, my USB support is gone. I tried "fdisk -l" but it told me "Unable to open l-." I tried "lsusb", but it told me "unable to initialize libusb: -99." I can't mount usb, sdb, sdb0, sdba or sdb1, it claims "can't find *** in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab." I should tell you that it's a very new install of only 4 days old, fully updated as of a few minutes ago. I don't know why installing a SATA drive would cause the whole system to go haywire on me, but it seems to have. I can't get it to even recognize any of my USB ports now.

[Llillithd]

Never mind. Apparently it's a hardware issue. I've tried several live cds trying to access any of my USBs and nothing will recognize any of 6. 

[T6]

hello and welcome to the forum!

the sata drive, where did you conected it?

in some mainboards there is some sata ports that won't cooperate with some optical drives, check if some of those ports are meant for raid or any specific use

also, check if the sata cable is new and could be failing

[Llillithd]

Hi T6, and thanks. I tried to plug the dvd into both SATA1 and SATA2, but the system wouldn't even boot with it plugged in, so I have decided to just buy an external USB dvd writer. The usb problem is a hardware issue that I solved by moving my hard drive into another box. But that brought up another issue that caused it to go into kernel panic when I tried to boot it in the new box. However, I just reinstalled PCLOS. I'm not much on troubleshooting, as you can see. I try a few things then get frustrated or make matters worse then, I come up with other ways to solve the problem. Someday, I may learn how to deal with all of these aggravations, but I doubt it. =)

[T6]

you are making too much changes, hard to recommend or to follow

the decision of have a external drive, good, it is what i do with my netbook and my desktops, none of them has a optical drive anymore

[Llillithd]

Sorry, my mania is showing. I am up and running with the hard drive in another box. I'm having no issues at the moment. So far, I really like PCLOS.