USB recognition

[Guest garbageman14]

Ok. I'm a total Linux newbie, and on Knoppix, not Mandrake, but I've found a lot of answers to questions on this board.

 

Simply, the OS doesn't seem to be recognizing any of my USB devices, particularly my Maxtor One-Touch USB HD. In the /mnt directory on my hard drive, it lists a directory called /sda1, with nothing in it. I'm REALLY lost and all my important backed-up info is on that drive. Any help you can give will be appreciated. Here's my fstab. Obviously, nothing listed about a /mnt/sda1 drive, but I don't really know what to put in there.

 

/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

 

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0

usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0

/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0

/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0

# Added by KNOPPIX

/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0

# Added by KNOPPIX

/dev/hda4 none swap defaults 0 0

# Added by KNOPPIX

/dev/hda5 none swap defaults 0 0

 

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[Guest garbageman14]

Nobody? Ok, well I managed to figure out on my own that it's not "usbdevfs" anymore and changed it accordingly, but it's still not being recognized.

[pmpatrick]

With the external hard drive connected and turned on, open a cosole, su to root and run:

 

# fdisk -l

 

You should get a printout of all partitions recognized by the system whether they are mounted or not. The partition(s) on your external hard drive will probably be designated /dev/sdax. Post back your results and the filesystem used on the external hard drive(FAT32, NTFS, ext3, ect). With the above info you hould be able to manually mount the drive.