Mounting an external HDD

[zer0halo]

Thanks, Chuck. Unfortunately it still doesn't work. I'll explain below:

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:47:26 -0800, Chuck Vose <vosechu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should be as easy as 'sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd'. Almost always
> fat can be autodetected but if you get a 'kernel doesn't support vfat'
> or whatever all you need to do is 'sudo modprobe vfat'.

The error I get is "special device /dev/sda1 does not exist". I don't
think vfat support is a problem, because I have other fat and ntfs
disks on my system (and LAN) mounted.

I've also tried mounting to sda2, sda3, sda0, sda, sdb1, etc. Same
error each time.

> 
> <history> There was a mention of new disks being under /media, and
> this is really how it's supposed to be under the LFS standard. /mnt is
> supposed to be for temporary use by the kernel but there's a pretty
> big debate over it simply because /media is new, and breaks anything
> older than a few years that uses /mnt (which is still the vast
> majority of software.) </history>

Nothing shows up under /media -- just my cdrom. 

> 
> What the others are talking about is the Computer button on the
> default top panel in GNOME. Under Computer there's a button called
> Disks and there _should_ be a device in there that's your disk is
> automount has figured everything out.

Right, I checked there, and the device isn't listed--since it's not
automounting.

> 
> My understanding of Hal is that it isn't an automounter at all, even
> if Hal knows what kind of disk is it, the program automount still has
> to figure out what to do with it. Hal is still very much a work in
> progress but it'll get better very quickly due to _incredible_ demand
> and great community support.

I guess it's not automounting. I do know that the system is
recognizing it though because as I mentioned before, dmesg gives me
the following:

usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using address 3
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

And lshal (or Device Manager in the menu) also shows it there.

Do you think it's a bug, or am I missing something?

(You  may be wondering, just stick the damn HDD in your desktop and
access it from there! Unfortunately I'm on a laptop :-)

> 
> Please let me know if these suggestions work or if you get any errors.
> 
> -Chuck
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