SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[JD]

  On 07/05/2010 10:18 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> On 06/24/2010 05:51 AM, Tim was caught red-handed while writing::
>>> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>>
>>>> [root at dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
>>>>
>>>> Unable to read /dev/sdb
>>>>
>>> Should it be sdb?  Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds.
>>>
>>>
>> Are you sure /dev/sdb exists?
>> Could it be /dev/sdc or sdd?
>> Do ls -l /dev/sdb
>> Also, sudo grep 'sd\.' /var/log/messages
>> to see how many drives were "probed" and attached.
> ls /sys/block
>
Well if /sys/block is empty, I'd say your  /dev is not getting populated.
What do you get from running mount?