Re: USB Harddisk



David M wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I used to use an USB harddisk in order to save my datas....
> This morning, I discovered that I couldn't mount the harddrive....
>
> As root > cat /proc/scsi/scsi -> file doesn't exist !!
> ??????????????????????????


You might be missing something..... what version of Linux are you using???

Hint: lsmod | grep hcd


> I have recreate the /mnt/usbdisk
> and type " mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk" -> it says ~ that SDA didn't exist

Well all hard disks have at least one partition so that would be /dev/sda1
and yep if you don't have a scsi (usb) disk you cannot mount it.


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