Hard disk trouble

[James Mckenzie]

Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sent: Sep 3, 2010 7:57 AM
>To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>Subject: Hard disk trouble
>
>hi,
>
>I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my
>laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted,
>gparted do not show it as a drive. 
>
>Here's the dmesg output:
>
>> scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
>> scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USB TO I DE/SATA Device   0041 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
>> sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
>> sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
>
>How do I access my drive? I intend to format it etc. and then set up
>fedora 13 on it. 
>
Look at the device name, it is sdc not sdb.

James McKenzie