thagrol wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:03 pm

Could be power related.

Does the external drive have its own PSU or is it powered from the USB bus? If the latter, try putting a powered USB hub between the Pi and the drive.

Yes, I'm plugging it into my monitor that is connected to my Pi.

I'm trying to mount a USB drive on my Raspberry Pi 3 and I'm following to the tutorial at http://raspi.tv/2012/how-to-mount-and-use-a-usb-hard-disk-with-the-raspberry-pi but on the command prompt when I put in tail -f /var/log/messages and I plug in my USB hard drive, it says all the normal stuff bu...