[CentOS] USB Drive is detected and but the device "/dev/sda1" is not initialized

Wed Aug 20 09:03:09 UTC 2008
Balaji <balajisundar at midascomm.com>

Sir,

   I have tried to mount the USB drive to "/dev/sda" and I have getting
   please specify valid filesystem on dev sda.


Regard
-S.Balaji

Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Balaji <balajisundar at midascomm.com> wrote:
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>>Dear All,
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>>  I have using CentOS 4.4 and My PC USB Drive is detected and
>>  but the device "/dev/sda1" is not initialized and i have executed the
>>  dmesg command and I am getting the following messages
>>    usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 2
>>  SCSI subsystem initialized
>>  Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
>>  scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>>    Vendor: JetFlash  Model: TS1GJFV30         Rev: 8.07
>>    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>>  USB Mass Storage device found at 2
>>  usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
>>  USB Mass Storage support registered.
>>  SCSI device sda: 1986558 512-byte hdwr sectors (1017 MB)
>>  sda: Write Protect is off
>>  sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
>>  sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>>  SCSI device sda: 1986558 512-byte hdwr sectors (1017 MB)
>>  sda: Write Protect is off
>>  sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
>>  sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>>  sda:
>>  Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>>    
>>
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>Maybe it's not partitioned. Have you tried to mount /dev/sda?
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