USB hard drive

Jim Douglas jdz99 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 30 19:39:12 UTC 2006




>From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: USB hard drive
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:30:52 +1030
>
>On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 03:13 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote:
> > I look in /dev and see sda, sdb, sdc, sdd
> >
> > I did,
> >
> > mkdir usbhd in /media
> >
> > then,
> >
> > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /media/usbhd
> >
> > is says,
> > mount:No medium found
>
>The "disk" is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.  It's most likely that you're
>going to mount a partition on the disk.  Try something like:
>
>mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd
>
>(Notice the number after sda.)
>
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I tried,
mount  -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd

And I get,
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

I  looks like,
mount  -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd

...is finding the device, but doesn't recognizing the media but I don't know 
why and don't know how to get it to.

Thanks,
Jim





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