On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:07, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Have partition(s) been created? If not try fdisk /dev/sda > Verify that there are no partitions so you have the right disk, then > create at least one partition on the drive and set the partition type > according to how you intend to use it. After writing that and exiting > fdisk don't forget to create a filesystem on that partition, which would > be /dev/sda1. If there is already a partition, then try mounting > /dev/sda1 somewhere. It probably exists. > yes its got a vfat partition on it and fdisk /dev/sd* gives [root@leyton scsi]# fdisk /dev/sda Unable to open /dev/sda