Less just lets you page through the dmesg output, you need to go to the end of that output. Or, before you insert the device next time have a console window opening running a tail of your message log:
Code:
tail -f /var/log/messages
On mine, when I insert the USB device I get the following:
Code:
Jan 1 08:30:37 fender kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Jan 1 08:30:37 fender kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: Rev:
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: SCSI device sda: 1007616 512-byte hdwr sectors (516 MB)
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: SCSI device sda: 1007616 512-byte hdwr sectors (516 MB)
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: sda: sda4
Jan 1 08:30:42 fender kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
I mount this device from /dev/sda4