Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25:
> Lisi:
>>
>> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros
>> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist
>
> Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the
> beginning of /dev/sdc1.
>
> J.
Yes, I concur with that. When inserting a USB drive with older kernels, there is
a certain waiting time (5 s?) before the device gets registered. Though your
first call of the mount command was correct, the device wasn't recognized yet.
Your second mount command simply had a typo.
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09-26-2011, 09:48 AM
Lisi
problems with external HDD
On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jrg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25:
> > Lisi:
> >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros
> >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist
> >
> > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the
> > beginning of /dev/sdc1.
> >
> > J.
>
> Yes, I concur with that. When inserting a USB drive with older kernels,
> there is a certain waiting time (5 s?) before the device gets registered.
> Though your first call of the mount command was correct, the device wasn't
> recognized yet. Your second mount command simply had a typo.
Thanks, both of you. Sadly my appalling typing is matched only by my poor
proof-reading. ;-(
My I also found that fstab had lost a couple of entries, of which that disk
was one. Probably the result of that mess I made the other day from which
you lot kindly rescued me.
Anyhow, for whatever reason, it now works. Even if only temporarily. o/
Lisi
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09-26-2011, 10:59 AM
Lisi
problems with external HDD
On Monday 26 September 2011 10:48:36 Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jrg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> > Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25:
> > > Lisi:
> > >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros
> > >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist
> > >
> > > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the
> > > beginning of /dev/sdc1.
> > >
> > > J.
> >
> > Yes, I concur with that. When inserting a USB drive with older kernels,
> > there is a certain waiting time (5 s?) before the device gets registered.
> > Though your first call of the mount command was correct, the device
> > wasn't recognized yet. Your second mount command simply had a typo.
>
> Thanks, both of you. Sadly my appalling typing is matched only by my poor
> proof-reading. ;-(
>
> My I also found that fstab had lost a couple of entries, of which that disk
> was one. Probably the result of that mess I made the other day from which
> you lot kindly rescued me.
>
> Anyhow, for whatever reason, it now works. Even if only temporarily. o/
It turned out ot be very temporarily. Like for one use only.
I tend to assume that PEBCAK is far more likely than that a new piece of kit
should be faulty. And this was beginning to be tedious. So before
complaining to Amazon I checked that I hadn't been told I had to use Windows.
In the process, I found that the problems I have been having are all too
common with the Seagate 500GB Expansion Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive, and all
the cases I came across were being used with Windows.
So it is going back to Amazon, and I have asked for a refund rather than for a
replacement.
Thanks for the help.
Lisi
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09-26-2011, 01:55 PM
Camalen
problems with external HDD
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:53:25 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Where do I go from here?
(...)
What kind of filesystem is on it?
> mount /dev/sdc1 /media/Distros/
Why a manual mount? External devices are usually automatically mounted,
depending on your desktop/window manager capabilities.
It seems that "sdc1" partition is detected but nothing more.
> exist Tux:/home/lisi# mount
(...)
You external disk is not listed.
> Tux:/home/lisi# mount /dev/sdc /media/Distros
(...)
What does "fdisk -l /dev/sdc" returns (has to be run as root)?
> This is the drive I said that I was having problems with. :-( I suppose
> that it might be faulty, but I am more inclined to think that I have
> still not finally and fully succeeded in ridding myself of the Windows
> "locks".
You can run manufacturer's disk tools to analyze the drive.
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