On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 10:52, James Amrhein wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to mount my external usb Acomdata harddrive under > Fedora. > > I tried : > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mount/usb > Did you already partition (fdisk /dev/sd*) and format the disk (mke2fs -j /dev/sd*1)? Are you sure you are correct designating it as /dev/sda1 as this is usually the first IDE disk that usually contains your root and home directories? Check your dmesg and logs when you booted or plugged it in. Regards, Barry K. Myrvold bkmyrvold@xxxxxxxxxx *************************** MOTD: Do you think sheep know when you're pulling the wool over their eyes?