Re: problems with external HDD

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25:
> > Lisi:
> >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros
> >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist
> >
> > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the
> > beginning of /dev/sdc1.
> >
> > J.
>
> Yes, I concur with that. When inserting a USB drive with older kernels,
> there is a certain waiting time (5 s?) before the device gets registered.
> Though your first call of the mount command was correct, the device wasn't
> recognized yet. Your second mount command simply had a typo.

Thanks, both of you.  Sadly my appalling typing is matched only by my poor 
proof-reading. ;-(

My I also found that fstab had lost a couple of entries, of which that disk 
was one.  Probably the result of that mess I made the other day from which 
you lot kindly rescued me.

Anyhow, for whatever reason, it now works.  Even if only temporarily. \o/

Lisi