Mount issue

[Jim Smith]

CJ Kelley wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net
> <mailto:jim at oz.net>> wrote:
>
>     I have a Maxtor 250 Gb OneTouch4 Mini drive which will work under
>     Windows or Linux. Problem is the last time I tried to use it I got the
>     following error message:
>
>     Cannot Mount Volume
>     Unable to mount the volume "OneTouch4 Mini"
>     Details:
>     mount_point cannot contain the following characters:
>     newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /).
>
>     I looked in fstab and mtab but not sure what to look for and correct.
>     Any ideas?
>
>     Many thanks in advance
>     Jim 
>
>
>
> What does dmesg | tail tell you after you insert the hard drive? If
> the hard drive is in perfect functioning order, it will give you an
> idea of the mount point
>
> --cj
>
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This is the output of dmesg:

jim at JimsBook:~$ dmesg | tail
[18045.327363] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[18045.327370] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2d 08 00 00
[18045.327375] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[18045.328607] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors
(250059 MB)
[18045.329236] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[18045.329243] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2d 08 00 00
[18045.329247] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[18045.329253]  sdb: sdb1
[ 8326.464397] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 8326.464436] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
jim at JimsBook:~$

Doesn't mean much to me, unfortunately.
Hope that helped

Jim