On Saturday 02 September 2006 15:44, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 16:20, Adrian wrote:

> > mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist
> >  or
> > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
> >
> > depending on which /dev/sda* I use in fstab.
>
> and you have usb-storage and scsi-disk support at least as modules and
> modprobed them?

HV is right, this looks like a kernel configuration issue.  When I connect my 
camera, dmesg comes up with:
=====================================
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: FUJIFILM  Model: USB-DRIVEUNIT     Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 1023120 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1023120 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
=====================================

HTH
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Regards,
Mick