I think I'm using the term "node" correctly in the subject line. For clarification, what I mean is the dir under /dev that will represent the drive's filesystem. The system is a "ThinkNic" that was passed along to me by someone for whom it stopped working. It also has spent about 99.8273% of its time in my possession in a non-working state as well: it just won't boot most of the time. For whatever strange reason, it's been booting just fine for the last few days. Anyway the ThinkNic is a sort of thin client thingy that runs its OS from a CD and RAM. Sort of a web station type arrangement. Has a CD drive, 64MB RAM chip, 200Mhz processor, onboard NIC, modem, video and USB ports. The system the manufacturer made to run on it is Linux - uses the 2.2.x kernel, a really primitive WM (Twm?), the Netscpae browser and Tik chat client. I decided to try an alternate "live CD" Linux on it. I'm pretty limited owing to low RAM, but Damnsmalllinux boots and runs just fine on it. This is based on Knoppix, which in turn is based on Debian. So I'm using what is ultimately a Debian based distro at the moment. Kernel 2.4.19. I checked dmesg output, and it seems the kernel has recognized the USB. Problem is, I'm not able to mount the USB HD I've attached to the USB port using any of the /dev/xxx's that are familiar to me (I get "not a valid block device" messages when I try). I discovered on other distros - quite by accident - via my friend the gui, that USB storage devices are often located under /dev/sdxx. However, when I su and do "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-hd" (yes, I created the mount point /mnt/usb-hd before trying this), I get the "not a valid block device" message. So, is there a way of discovering under which /dev/node the USB drive has been put? Or, is there a way of finding out why it's not been put in such a place, presuming it hasn't? In short, how do I locate the danged thing! More info needed? Please let me know.
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