[Cialug] Western Digital My Book

[Nathan C. Smith]

> 
> mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
> 
> Here's the mount command I used:
> 
> mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb_1
> 
> Here's what dmesg said about the device:
> 
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>   Vendor: WD        Model: 2500JB External   Rev: 0108
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI
> SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (250059 MB)
>  sdb: sdb1
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> USB Mass Storage support registered.

Have you had it mounted before?  Did it come from the factory formated as
FAT32?  Can you specify the filesystem when you mount?

-Nate