Ubuntu can't see usb drive

[Douglas Pollard]

On 06/06/2011 08:20 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 08:04 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>> 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:~$
>>
> 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
>
My wife's netbook with Ubuntu 10.04 for netbooks can't see the drive in 
PLACES. The disk utility can see it in both machines.   Since this is a 
vfat drive do you think windows xp can see it? 
                                            Doug