[PLUG] Newbie with an old system

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 12:33 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Aaron Burt wrote:
> 
> > The drive should be /dev/sda, the first partition /dev/sda1.  As root you
> > should be able to do an "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and see a FAT partition on
> > sda1. You should then be able to say, "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" and have the
> > drive mounted at /mnt.
> 
>    Also, in case it's not recognized as /dev/sda1, as root run 'tail -f
> /var/log/messages' and see what the message is when you connect and
> disconnect the device. That will confirm what you need to mount.
> 
> Rich
> 

Another way is to install the <b>lsscsi</b> command, which tells you exactly 
how your system identifies the device:

$ lsscsi
[0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD800JD-08LS 07.0  /dev/sda
[2:0:0:0]    disk    LEXAR    JUMPDRIVE        1.10  /dev/sdb

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