I am having problems mounting a USB jump drive...dmesg shows it recognized it, cat /proc/partition shows it. anddd...there was another one.....can't remember what it was, but it shows up as sda or sda1 yet when I do 'mount /dev/sda1' it says it can't be found.

Same deal with a hard drive...any ideas?

does /dev/sda actualy exsist? do you have a /dev/scsi/* ? if neither, you may have to mknod the device files

mount with only one argument (a device name or mount point) is a shortcut that works only if the device/mount-point pair is already referenced in the file /etc/fstab, which is why you get the 'not found' error.

For a new device, you must specify both the device name (/dev/sda1) and the mount point (directory name) you want it to appear under.

HTH,
fp

@fpp

yes of course Im sorry I forgot to mention that. I did this exactly 'mount /dev/sda1 /home/user/MyDocs/HD' after creating HD, and still no dice.

@chrwei

Nope..no /dev/sda no /dev/scsi BUT when cat /proc/partition it shows sda (full capacity of hard drive) sda1 (partition one) sda2 (parition 2).

Maybe because the USB Jum Drive is not self power supplied and the 770 usb port doesn't offer any mA. Try to supply it via an HUB.