Hard disk trouble

[Phil Meyer]

  On 09/03/2010 08:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> 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.
>


$ cat /proc/partitions

If its not in there its not working.  That is always the first place to 
look if in doubt.

Good luck!