On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:24 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:09:36 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:26 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> [quoted text muted] > > > > Mine looks like this > > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 2007-08-06 21:54 /dev/sdc > > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 33 2007-08-06 21:54 /dev/sdc1 > > > > You only mention the "whole" disk /dev/sdb > > Hopefully /dev/sdb1 is there > > > > Mine auto mounts and shows up as follows > > /dev/sdc1 on /media/WIN98 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,uid=202,utf8,shortname=lower) > > > > If /dev/sdb1 is there and not mounted then mount it as suggested by Randy > > > > If no /dev/sdb1 or similar then have a look with fdisk - but be careful! > > > > fdisk can do very nasty things to your stick/disk > > Stick to p for print and q for quit for now. > > > > > > Again mine looks like this > > > > [root@naxos ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/sdc: 999 MB, 999816704 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sdc1 * 1 122 976352 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > > phys=(120, 254, 63) logical=(121, 141, 19) > > > > Command (m for help): q > > > > [root@naxos ~]# > > > > > > John > > The only /dev/sdb* is /dev/sdb . No /dev/sdb1 appears. > Noting your admonition to be careful, I took a look > at man fdisk . It appears the appropriate command on > my version of fdisk is: > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > It returns, having printed nothing. > > Mike. > > > Important questions How does it appear in XP as fat32 or NTFS or ..... Has the disk any data on it ? Has it ever been partitioned or formatted ? How big is the device MB/GB No entries in the partition table suggest it has not been partitioned or formatted. BUT I do have a USB stick that mounts as /dev/sdc /dev/sdc on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,uid=202,utf8,shortname=lower) I believe this to be unusual !! John
