Check your system has detected the ext. usb drive or not.
# cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage/0
If you can't see anything you probably need driver for your external HDD
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I use Memory stick in my system and here is the output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /proc/scsi/usb-storage/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] usb-storage]# cat 0
Host scsi0: usb-storage
Vendor: USB
Product: Solid state disk
Serial Number: 185418083E98E567
Protocol: Transparent SCSI
Transport: Bulk
Quirks:
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If yes then do
mount /dev/sdb1 <mountpoint> -t <fstype>
HTH
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----- Original Message -----
From: Fakrul Alam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [bdlug] mount external usb harddisk in linux
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk -l
>
>Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8924 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
>/dev/sda2 14 8794 70533382+ 83 Linux
>/dev/sda3 8795 8924 1044225 82 Linux swap
>
>
>--- "S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
> > can you please post the output of "fdisk -l "
> > > On 2/24/06, Fakrul Alam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > dear all,
> > > I have a 80 GB. I want to mount it in linux; the
> > file
> > > system is fat32. But cant mount it with regular
> > mount
> > > command. It is giving the follwing error:
> > > mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
> > > I have SCSI hdd and it's partition is /dev/sda1
> > > Do i need any driver for it? I have tried in
> > Redhat
> > > Linux 8/9 and in CentOS 4.2
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Fakrul Alam
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