Hard disk trouble

[James Mckenzie]

Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:01 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>
>Yeah, typo, sorry. 
>
>Anything apart from that please?

Well, you have several advices. but I would like to know where the device is installed as it appears you have one SATA/SCSI device on sda and a USB to SCSI device on sdc.

James McKenzie