Try to mount USB drive: Computer can't find /dev/sda1
Hello, totally confused Linux newbie here.
Try'n to mount my USB drive, running Fedora Core 1. So I plug my drive into the computer, and go to the "Hardware Browser" and under the "Hard Drives" section it says this: Quote:
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The above method worked great on another computer running RedHat 9, so what am I doing wrong? Any help would be really cool, thanks in advance. |
Maybe the drive is not /dev/sda
Remove the USB drive from the system. Open a Shell tail -f /var/log/messages Plug in the USB drive Watch as the system identifies the device and assigns it a sdx indicator.. the first SATA or USB Memory device will grab sda. a Card reader will usually grab sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, so your usb drive could be /dev/sde1 in that case.. Watching the message log is truly the easiest way to figure it out.. |
Two other ways to discover the correct device:
'udevmonitor' (as root) is another way you can monitor device creation. It will show you exactly which devices are created or removed as it happens. 'cat /proc/partitions' will show you all the physical partitions your system has access to, and it can usually be accessed by all users. |
Ok, did the tail -f /var/log/messages, here's what I got:
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Now you update to a newer version of Fedora, preferably running a 2.6 kernel. 2.4 and below has issues with some USB chipsets.
(How did you end up with FC1 anyway, if you're new? o.O) |
Lol, 'k thanks. The box needed to be formatted anyways.
(FC1 came with a how-to Linux book) |
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