It might be showing up under /dev/sdb1, c1, etc.... try ls /dev/sd* and see what the possibilities are.
The device specials are probably being created and deleted automagically as needed (they are on my machine). I think that's a 2.6.x thing. What kernel are you running? You can probably get the USB device to show up with a predictable name using HAL. This would actually make a great UMLUG meeting talk (and no I'm not the person to give it). You could set up HAL to recognize a specific USB device by vendor and device ID, then mount it to the appropriate mount point. I haven't found any really good docs on this but have at least succeeded in getting my MP3 player to show up with the right permissions (so I don't have to run amarok as root :) Judah Howard Sanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > With a lot of help from you folks, I got USB working by > creating /dev/sda1 using mknod: > > mknod /dev/sda1 b 10 1 > > Worked like a charm. > > However, from time to time /dev/sda1 disappears without my > deleting it. It seems to be random; I can't figure out a cause. It has > happened three times that I remember, most recently tonight. > > Up till tonight, I could always su root and re-create it using > mknod as above. However, tonight when I got the response "/dev/sda1 > does not exist," after I re-created it using mknod I then got the > error message "mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device." > > /dev/sda1 is still in /etc/fstab, and the mount point /mnt/usb > still exists. /etc/fstab has not changed at all since the last time I > successfully used USB. > > Does anybody know what's going on? I really need to be able to > use USB. Having occasionally to re-create /dev/sda1 is a pain, but > something I can live with as long as the result is accessible. > > Thanks. > > Howard Sanner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
