"/dev/sda1 does not exist" Why????

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Pasternak" <stevenp500 at bellsouth.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:00 PM
Subject: "/dev/sda1 does not exist" Why????


>I use FC3 kernel 2.6.9-1.667 and when I plug my USB pen drive in and  click 
>on
> the kde icon I made it says that "/dev/sda1 doesn't exist". If I open a 
> super
> user terminal and go to /dev and type 'MAKEDEV sda1' it makes it, but says 
> it
> doesn't say that it is a valid block device. WHY??

I've seen some thumb drives that mount as /dev/sda, not /dev/sdaX where X is 
a partition number.

As another poster asked, what does fdisk -l /dev/sda show you?

Thomas