On Monday 26 September 2011 10:48:36 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25: > > > Lisi: > > >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros > > >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist > > > > > > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the > > > beginning of /dev/sdc1. > > > > > > J. > > > > Yes, I concur with that. When inserting a USB drive with older kernels, > > there is a certain waiting time (5 s?) before the device gets registered. > > Though your first call of the mount command was correct, the device > > wasn't recognized yet. Your second mount command simply had a typo. > > Thanks, both of you. Sadly my appalling typing is matched only by my poor > proof-reading. ;-( > > My I also found that fstab had lost a couple of entries, of which that disk > was one. Probably the result of that mess I made the other day from which > you lot kindly rescued me. > > Anyhow, for whatever reason, it now works. Even if only temporarily. \o/
It turned out ot be very temporarily. Like for one use only. I tend to assume that PEBCAK is far more likely than that a new piece of kit should be faulty. And this was beginning to be tedious. So before complaining to Amazon I checked that I hadn't been told I had to use Windows. In the process, I found that the problems I have been having are all too common with the Seagate 500GB Expansion Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive, and all the cases I came across were being used with Windows. So it is going back to Amazon, and I have asked for a refund rather than for a replacement. Thanks for the help. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109261159.08837.lisi.re...@gmail.com
