FC4: have no /dev/sda1 - trying to mount usb hard drive

[pnkflyd51]

Hi all-

I have FDC, am wanting to mount a usb hard drive which I believe is currently formatted with ext3.

Anway, all the howto's/help docs that I can find say something along the lines:

add /dev/sda1 to fstab etc etc etc.

I have no /dev/sda1 or any other /dev/sd* !!!

I cannot locate any documentation on if FC4 does things differently... I saw mknod can create devices in /dev, but I don't understand all the switches and I figure /dev/sda1 should have been created automatically...

Thanks for any help! Andy

[pnkflyd51]

by the way, the following is in my /proc/bus/usb/devices:

T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=03 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 4 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=05e3 ProdID=0702 Rev= 0.33
S: Product=USB TO IDE
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 96mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=125us


and this is in my dmesg:

usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.

I would of course be happy to report anything else... Thanks!

[steve941]

My usb drive mounts automatically when plugged in. Goto preference-removeable drives and media to make sure the first two are checked- mount removable drives, and mount removeable media. If you always leave it plugged in then it shouldn't matter and you should not have to modify fstab, but then again may have to- not sure on that on. Here's a line from my fstab:
"/dev/sda4 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0" Just mess with it a little.

[pnkflyd51]

again, I do not have /dev/sdaxx

there is no /dev/sda, /dev/sdax (where x = any number)

I believe this is the root (pardon the pun) of my problem.

Anyone know how I should create these?

Thanks much!

[pnkflyd51]

BTW, this was a fresh install of the released Fedora Core 4.

Another odd problem I'm having is that I can't ctrl-alt F2, F3 F4 to text consoles either. I have relatively few /dev/ files compared to my previous Red Hat 9 system. This FC4 system is the first linux upgrade I've done (and it was a fresh install) since RH9.

I thought there was an RPM that creates all the /dev/ files, but I can't locate it on my FC4 DVD.

I wonder if I'm missing a lot of the /dev/ files - and if so, anyone know how they should be created? Thanks much!

[crackers]

/dev files, as "true files" no longer exist: the UDEV subsystem creates only the required devices at run-time, in conjunction with HAL (hardware abstraction layer).

Try unplugging and re-plugging your USB drive and see if /etc/fstab shows the change - it may take a second or two. If it does not, check /var/log/messages for errors.

[iamroot]

You might want to try plugging in your hard drive BEFORE FC4 boots up. My problem got solved that way.

[laltopi]

Check whether the mtx package is installed.

[pnkflyd51]

Someone just PMed me to ask how I fixed it. I believe I ended up fixing it manually with mknod commands. Here's a howto:

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/basics.shtml