Dell usb memory stick

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:15:48 -0400, rehmert at gmail.com wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:04 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:47:09 -0400, rehmert at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:16 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:04:45 -0500, akonstam wrote:
>> >> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:48:40PM -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> >> >> I'm trying to access a usb memory stick (FC4), and I think it's detected
>> >> >> but I don't know how to access it. I tried guessing /dev/sd? but in /dev I
>> >> >> only have sda? for my partitions only, and nothing else. So 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> mount -t vfat /dev/sd? /media/usb
>> >> >> 
>> > 
>> > Try this:
>> > 
>> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb
>> 
>> sda1-sda10 are my partitions. And there's no other /dev/sd? . 
>>  
>> [root at phoenix ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>> 
>> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> 
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda2   *          14         523     4096575    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda3             524         650     1020127+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda4             651       14596   112021245    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>> /dev/sda5             651        9574    71681998+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda6            9575       10211     5116671   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda7           10212       10848     5116671   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda8           10849       11103     2048256   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda9           11104       11358     2048256   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>> /dev/sda10          11359       14596    26009203+  83  Linux
>> 
> 
> Is your primary drive a SCSI or SATA?  That's probably the case...  If
> so, have you tried the next:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
> 
> Unless, of course, you have a secondary HDD installed...

Of course...
[root at phoenix ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist


I tried sdb1-10, sdc1-10, etc. Nothing.

I only have a single hard disk, and it's SATA. 

What worries me is that in other posts on memory sticks, people showed in
/var/log/messages entries saying what sd? the memory stick was seen as. I
only see in my logs a single entry:

Aug 13 12:01:22 phoenix kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2

Something is amiss here. I don't know what to look into.