On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Sullivan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:msulli1355@gmail.com">msulli1355@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><br>[snip]<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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All I know is that at one time, the external drive was recognized<br>
on /dev/sda and at that time I formatted the drive for swap space and<br>
ran swapon /dev/sda1  Now for some reason it doesn&#39;t work.  I want it to<br>
work.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Could you post your /etc/fstab? Could you hotplug your drive and post the results of  fdisk -l  and also  lsusb -v?<br><br>--<br>Valmor <br></div></div><br>