Please don't type in "locate ......" That doesn't help. If you had posted your /etc/fstab and the out put of these two commands,

dmesg | grep usb
dmesg | grep sd

we could have helped you solve this problem a long time ago. If you won't help us help you in the simplest of ways, then I'm not going to try any longer, as it's a waste of your time and mine.

Good luck...

David

P.S. I found this on the net, and it explains things better than I could. Good luck...

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11637.html

Good News!
Now all of a sudden I have /dev/sda and /dev/sda1
So now I edit /etc/fstab to say:
...and no, I didn't put those hyphens in. I tried just about every file system I could think of in /etc/fstab. The closest I got was usbfs, which just listed some folders with a "device" text file and another unknown "001" file.
Anybody know what goes in the ------? (I'm sorry this thread is so long)

/dev/sad1/mnt/usb auto default,users,noauto 0 0

This is what the line in your /etc/fstab should look like. Change noauto to auto if you want linux to mount it automaticly. (Might screw up some other stuff, but I'm not sure.) As it is, you will have to open a console and type mount /dev/sda when you want to use it.

/dev/sda /mnt/usb auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0

P.S. found some stuff on the net that implied hfs had to be enabled in the kernel.
"There are other times when you may want to mount a native OS X partition in Linux. An example of why you may want this is if you, say, have a bootable OS X environment on some removal media but want to easily transfer the drive around and/or load it up in PearPC. In this case, you instead would want to enable HFS+ in the kernel. As of 2.6.11, HFS (which is used by older macs) is available experimentally and UFS (which is used on some OS X machines for greater UNIX compatibility) in read-only. Enable Apple Extended HFS file system support."

I found that here....
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...s&ct=clnk&cd=9

I checked the man page for mount, and it looks like hfs and hpfs are supported, but by using auto, mount MIGHT not detect it correctly, so try hfs or hpfs for the extended version.

So if auto doesn't work, use hfs or hpfs for the filesystem type in fstab. If that doesn't work, check to see if you have hfs support enabled in the kernel you are running.

Good luck...

David

P.P.S. You might want to read this too, and that fs type might be hfsplus not hpfs.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=497585

Good luck

Thank you for all your help, but nothing changed ever since I put that in.
I'm going to try to find out how to have hfs support on my system, because when I typed in "locate hfs", the only thing that came up was "hfs.ko", which seems like a disk image. Does anyone know how I could have hfs support.
Once again, thank you very much.

Actually, after a little Googling, I found hfs.
It's a text file, though. What am I supposed to do with it?