Iomega external USB HDD access

[rohan_wali]

hi,
I can see my 80 GB external USB connected HardDIsk through the hardware browser. So i know that it has been detected
The path that it is giving me does not exist in the /dev/ folder......
How do i gain access to it (view its contents) ?
The drive is formatted using FAT32
thnx
ROhan

1.7ghz
256 MB Ram
Fedora Core 1

[imdeemvp]

Use the second part of this thread (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=145752) to see if you can mount it.

[nikiwaibel]

have the same problem in FC4.
dont see the iomega external usb harddrive (120gbyte) in /dev.
the only thing i see is:
===
$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 059b:0177 Iomega Corp.
===
$ dmesg | tail -n 2
[17184805.000000] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[17184805.252000] midi: probe of 1-3:1.0 failed with error -5

[nikiwaibel]

seemd this only happens when HOTPLUGGING the harddisk.
rebooting with the harddisk plugged works fine (/dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are created).
but after hotUNplugging (which works fine ;) the harddisk never appears again...

hope anyone can tell how to fix this in the hal/hotplug/udev - FC4 system!

[LocutusOfBorg]

There aren't /dev/sdXY devices?
If you run
sfdisk -l
what do you get?
There's anything automounted in /media?

[nikiwaibel]

no, nothing in /dev.
this is because of 2.6.13!!! everything is fine with std FC4 (2.6.12-1.1447_FC4) and 2.6.12.4. but things are wrong with 2.6.13 and 2.6.13.1. i've read that it could have sthg to do with the (old) udev-058-1 (which is ok for 2.6.12).