Hi,

I recently purchased this enclosure:
http://www.amazon.com/Inland-2-5-Inc.../dp/B003SZ2Y12

and this HDD:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barrac...3811667&sr=8-1

Now, I let my brother in law use the enclosure with his 160GB disk to back some stuff up. He then gave me that disk in my enclosure and I backed up my computer and my fiances computer. So...obviously, i had no problem mounting that disk. I plan on keeping this disk as my "natural disaster backup" (in case my apartment building burns down, i still have that disk with my stuff backed up).

I want to use the 1.5T disk as my regular/more frequent backup device, but it doesn't seem to be mounting to my F-13 machine.

I searched through this forum and found someone advising to run the following:
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

this is the output i get when I run that:
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /boot


Thing is, shouldn't this disk automatically mount just like the LAST disk in the same enclosure with the same USB cable and power supply?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS!

On occasion, I have found getting a hard drive in an enclosure to mount (or even be seen by the system) requires fiddling with the jumpers on the drive. Usually, they come from the factory set to "CS" (cable select) but, depending on the enclosure, you might have to set the jumper to "MA" (master).

Also, that mount(1) command you tried to issue, looks like it was probably pointing towards your boot drive (the one that's actually inside your computer).

If you want to get the device Linux is assigning to your external hard drive, run the following command, in a terminal:
and once your hard drive is turned on, plug it in to your computer. You should watch some stuff fly by, but what you are looking for is a line that looks something like What the watch(1) command does, is it shows you the output from running the specified command (between the single quotes) at the specified time interval (in this case, every half-second). To get out of it, press Ctrl-C.

this is what I get when i run the tail command:


sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk