I am unable to mount an external hard drive. I have tried dmesg | grep usb, tail /var/log/messages, mounting /dev/sda1 and whole lot of stuff, but I cannot seem to locate where it is in /dev. Anyway, here is the output of the commands I mentioned, becuase I am pretty sure they do not contain the assignment of the drive, but I am not positive.
dmesg | grep usb
Code:
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new driver touchkitusb
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb-storage: device scan complete
dmesg | grep hd
Code:
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1860-0x1867, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1868-0x186f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: TOSHIBA MK6025GAS, ATA DISK drive
hdc: UJDA755 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB), CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding 1953496k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1953496k
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
dmesg | grep sd
tail /var/log/messages
Code:
Dec 30 19:27:49 forest usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Dec 30 19:27:50 forest scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec 30 19:27:50 forest usb-storage: device found at 3
Dec 30 19:27:50 forest usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Dec 30 19:27:55 forest Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MHT2080AT Rev: 0022
Dec 30 19:27:55 forest Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Dec 30 19:27:55 forest usb-storage: device scan complete
Dec 30 19:27:55 forest scsi.agent[4868]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:2.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbmount
Code:
/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
Anyway, I would really really appreciate any help.
PS: Every time I mount it, /var/log/messages seems to increase the number the device is found at (in the case above it is 3) and I have no clue what it means or whether or not that info would help anyone.
