Hard disk trouble
JD
jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 16:24:08 UTC 2010
On 09/03/2010 07:57 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.
Very very funny. LOL!!!
You say the device is created as /dev/sdb,
but you dmesg states clearly it is /dev/sdc
Now all you do is
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
or
sudo parted -l /dev/sdc
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