Re: Mounting USB Harddisk
First do a dmesg first and see where it is mounted to..
Then try to mount it on that point.
if that doesnt work , probably the usb modules are missing.
Vijaya
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
>
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