This is what I see when I do dmesg on my ubuntu - drive is not detected on mac either :((
please help - it has tonnes of data of mine
and drive makes a click noise constantly
[100410.404166] usb 2-3: new high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci
[100410.543356] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387
[100410.543362] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[100410.543365] usb 2-3: Product: Mass Storage
[100410.543368] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Generic
[100410.543370] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: E71208C7
[100410.543747] usb-storage 2-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[100410.543863] scsi15 : usb-storage 2-3:1.0
[100411.542200] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Flash Disk 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[100411.542903] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[100411.547109] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] 3893248 512-byte logical blocks: (1.99 GB/1.85 GiB)
[100411.550171] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[100411.550178] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[100411.551239] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[100411.551246] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[100411.554976] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[100411.554984] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[100411.555882] sdb: sdb1
[100411.559244] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[100411.559250] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[100411.559254] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[100415.559993] EXT4-fs (sdb1): recovery complete
[100415.562562] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[100415.899489] systemd-hostnamed[23585]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname!
[105054.370831] sdb: detected capacity change from 1993342976 to 0
[105061.664094] usb 2-3: USB disconnect, device number 16
[106177.920171] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 17 using ehci-pci
[106178.053387] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0748
[106178.053399] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[106178.053407] usb 2-1: Product: My Passport 0748
[106178.053413] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[106178.053420] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 575842314133334B32343734
[106178.054294] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[106178.056574] scsi16 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[106179.056762] scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 0748 1022 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[106179.057246] scsi 16:0:0:1: Enclosure WD SES Device 1022 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[106179.057787] sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[106179.057888] ses 16:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device
[106179.057955] ses 16:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 13
[106187.050935] ses 16:0:0:1: Failed to get diagnostic page 0x8000002
[106187.050942] ses 16:0:0:1: Failed to bind enclosure -19
[106187.054176] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk…