On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:13:01AM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> I just got myself a 40 GB USB harddisk. But I am unable to mount it on
> debian.
>
> Command "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda" gives following output:
> "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device"
>
>
> When I do "/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda", there is no output, I just get a
> command prompt. I also tried /sdb, /sdc etc. None work.
>
> In /dev, /sda etc. do exist.
>
> I did "tail -s 2 -f /var/log/messages" to make it read message log, and
> then I connected the USB disk. This is what it said:
>
> Apr 1 10:02:40 vikas kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-1, assigned
> address 4
>
> Apr 1 10:02:43 vikas usb.agent[5088]: usb-storage: loaded successfully
>
> Can anybody help me mount the disk?
>
> Vikas
>
Hi Vikas,
all of the above looks normal. What does lsusb/usbview show?
Just a random thought,
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