[ale] External USB drive is detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:17 -0400, Chris Paquin wrote:
> Does anyone know why this would do this? This is an external drive in an
> enclosure. I plug it in and bam, two icons appear on my fedora desktop
> for the new media device. One obviously is useless but cannot be deleted
> or moved to trash as I get the error "failed to mount device".
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

Send us the output of "cat /etc/fstab" please.

Also, with the USB device plugged in, send the output of "mount".

Thanks,

-Jim P.