John, Please copy/paste the following command into your terminal and post the output here so that we can offer sensible advice.
ls -l /dev/sd* Making sure you know what is attached and mounted to your system should be your first step in a situation like this. --Ben On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 9:04 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > It is not referenced in fstab. Here is fstab: > > John, > > That's totally different from any I've seen so I have nothing useful to > add. > > > Altering your command because Ubuntu decided some time back to rename > > /var/log/messages to /var/log/syslog, I get nothing referring to the > > device. > > Did you follow /var/log/syslog for changes as you connected (or turned > on) > your problem device? If you look at the static log you might not see what > how the kernel reacts when a new device is seen. > > On my systems when I attached a USB external flash/hard drive I often > see > the log respond (not in these exact words), > > /dev/sdc seen > /dev/sdc1 attached as Logitech model xxx. > > This tells me that the kernel first sees the device, then the specific > partition. > > Others with much more knowledge than I have will probably help you more. > > Regards, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
