Hi,

I have been using Fedora Core since the first version and until the last few updates of FC3 (I do not remember how many) I have always been able to use a USB pen drive using the device sda1 (under FC3 the device was also recognized immedialty when plugged in the usb port).

But atfer the last updates FC3, the pen drive does not hotplug anymore and if I try to mount it manually I receive the error message:

# mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

In fact, I have checked that the file sda1 does not exist anymore in my filesystem!

Any guess on how the updates can have caused this and how to fix the problem?

Many thanks,
Sebastiano Moruzzi

it must be somewhere, have you checked out /dev/sdb or c?

Hi,

there is no directories called /dev/sdb in my filesystem.

Anyway, I have scanned my filesystem looking for sda1 but I found nothing

are you running devfs?

Hi,

sorry I do not know what is dvfss.

Anyway, thanks to a advice from another forum I got the solution:

# sudo mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen/

and sda and sda1 magically appeared in /dev and the pend drive has been automatically recognized!

Is there any explanation of why the last upgrades of FC3 created such a problem?

Best,
Sebatiano Moruzzi

you just said the device doesnt exist. clearly it did or you would not have been able to mount it. did you wait long enough for the light to stop flashing before trying the mount command before?

Before giving that command the name of the device did not appeart under /dev as it does now, and yes I waited long enough before trying to mount.