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pyrrhik
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 Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:17 am Post subject: weird problem with external hard drive |
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I had a lot of data that I had backed up on a USB 10GB external drive. it's a ntfs filesystem, but I'm only trying to get the data off of it, and I have ntfs read support enabled in my kernel. so I mounted it like so | Code: | | mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd |
and I proceded to copy about 5GB or so to my hard drive. anyway, I left while it was doing that, and came back about an hour later. it finished copying everything over, but when I tried to browse around to a different file, I couldn't, I kept getting this weird error. I wish I had written it down, but I didn't. so I tried unmounting it, and remounting it, and I got the message | Quote: | | mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist |
I wondered if I had possibly just made a typo or something, so I checked what I had written, and it was correct. I even went so far as going back in my history until I found the string of text that I had typed the first time to get it to work. it was exactally the same as what I was trying to do. so I rebooted my machine, and tried again, no luck. I tried | Code: | | ls /dev | grep sda1 |
but it didn't find anything. so then I went and manually looked through my /dev directory. sure enough, it really wasn't there. right about now, I'm at a loss for what happened. any help would definately be appreciated. |
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chinokaze
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After /dev/sda1 disappears do you still have /dev/sda?
I have a USB ZIP so this might or might not work, but I've found that unless you take some special steps the /dev/sda4 (Zips appear on 4) won't appear.
Well in any case, what I do to get my ZIP to appear is
| Code: | | ls /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/ |
You might want try something similar. |
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