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

[Chris Paquin]

Here you go.

[root at jupiter ~]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0  160086528 hda
   3     1     104391 hda1
   3     2  157943047 hda2
   3     3    2032222 hda3
   3    64   29316672 hdb
   3    65   29310561 hdb1
   8     0   40146623 sda
   8     1   40136008 sda1

Sounds like Justin is correct about the partitions. However my camera
and jumpdrive do not behave in the same manner.


On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:44 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> 
> In addition to what Jim P. requested, can you also send the output from
> dmesg and "cat /proc/partitions" after plugging the device in?
> 
> 	- Mike
> 
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