System not able to detect external USB hard drive

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Issue

  • Hard drive is connected through the USB port in the system, but the system is not able to detect the hard drive.
  • Running # modprobe usb_storage does not install the usb_storage kernel module.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga)

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