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Re: Mounting USB harddisk



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"

Have you tried to load "ide-scsi" module into kernel? Something like

    rmmod usb-storage
    modprobe ide-scsi
    modprobe usb-storage

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André Carezia
Eng. de Telecomunicações
Carezia Consultoria - www.carezia.eng.br




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