Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[Douglas Pollard]

On 06/06/2011 08:04 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt
douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt
mount: only root can do that
douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt
[sudo] password for douglasdoug:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
        dmesg | tail  or so

douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$ dmesg | tail  or so
tail: cannot open `or' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: cannot open `so' for reading: No such file or directory
douglasdoug at ubuntuDoug:~$
  by the way there is a 150 or 160 gig drive not sure which it is that 
is USB.   Aha! It was turned off it is now on and shows up in places and 
in disk utility.  I am going to plug the 2TB file into my wifes netbook 
and see if can be seen it in PLACES.              Doug