Mount issue

[Jim Smith]

debiani386 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:20 -0700, Jim Smith wrote:
>   
>> CJ Kelley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net
>>> <mailto:jim at oz.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I have a Maxtor 250 Gb OneTouch4 Mini drive which will work under
>>>     Windows or Linux. Problem is the last time I tried to use it I got the
>>>     following error message:
>>>
>>>     Cannot Mount Volume
>>>     Unable to mount the volume "OneTouch4 Mini"
>>>     Details:
>>>     mount_point cannot contain the following characters:
>>>     newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /).
>>>
>>>     I looked in fstab and mtab but not sure what to look for and correct.
>>>     Any ideas?
>>>
>>>     Many thanks in advance
>>>     Jim 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What does dmesg | tail tell you after you insert the hard drive? If
>>> the hard drive is in perfect functioning order, it will give you an
>>> idea of the mount point
>>>
>>> --cj
>>>
>>>
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>> This is the output of dmesg:
>>
>> jim at JimsBook:~$ dmesg | tail
>> [18045.327363] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>> [18045.327370] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2d 08 00 00
>> [18045.327375] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>> [18045.328607] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors
>> (250059 MB)
>> [18045.329236] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>> [18045.329243] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2d 08 00 00
>> [18045.329247] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>> [18045.329253]  sdb: sdb1
>> [ 8326.464397] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
>> [ 8326.464436] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
>> jim at JimsBook:~$
>>
>> Doesn't mean much to me, unfortunately.
>> Hope that helped
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>     
> try "Sudo mount /dev/sg2 /media/exampledirectory
>
>
> note: replace exampledirectory with what ever directory you want to use.
>
> hth
> --cj
>   
>>     
>
>
>   
Result is "/dev/sg2 is not a block device"
Jim