Re: problems with external HDD
On Monday 26 September 2011 10:48:36 Lisi wrote:
> 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/
It turned out ot be very temporarily. Like for one use only.
I tend to assume that PEBCAK is far more likely than that a new piece of kit
should be faulty. And this was beginning to be tedious. So before
complaining to Amazon I checked that I hadn't been told I had to use Windows.
In the process, I found that the problems I have been having are all too
common with the Seagate 500GB Expansion Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive, and all
the cases I came across were being used with Windows.
So it is going back to Amazon, and I have asked for a refund rather than for a
replacement.
Thanks for the help.
Lisi
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