Mount issue

[debiani386 at gmail.com]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:20 -0700, Jim Smith wrote:
> 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
> 
try "Sudo mount /dev/sg2 /media/exampledirectory


note: replace exampledirectory with what ever directory you want to use.

hth
--cj
> 
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