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Old 27th November 2010
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
When you plug the device in, your dmesg will get a few lines added to it. Your console will get blue/white kernel messages. Your /var/log/messages will have them too.

Read them. You might discover the device is sd2 instead of sd1. But until you take the time to see what device is actually attached, or not attached and why, all we can do is make conjecture.

Once you have confirmed you have a correctly attached device, you may then attempt to inspect it with fdisk(8) and disklabel(8).
The funny thing is my dmesg does not get lines added to it. A diff between my regular dmesg and a dmesg after I plug it in results in no differences. My console usually gets text with white text and blue background when I plug in an external hard drive, but this particular drive does not give me any sort of that message at all.
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