partha chowdhury wrote: > Guest3731 wrote: > > Hi - relatively inexperienced user here. I installed CentOS 5.2 > > yesterday (http install via a mirror, worked brilliantly), as well as a > > new Seagate 1Tb USB external HDD (from the new Xtreme line), for > > backup/media storage. > [snip] > if you take it out and put it back again is it automatically mounted and > can kernel see it when you do fdisk -l ? > > Strange. I took it out and put it back again, and the kernel noticed that it was installed: SCSI device sdf: 1963525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (100205 MB) <etc.> And it showed up as sdf when I did fdisk -l. However, when I ran "mount," this is what appeared: /dev/sde1 on /mnt/seagate1 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /dev/sde2 on /mnt/seagate2 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) So apparently it's still mounted as /dev/sde1[2], but incorrectly? Very strange. Next, I umounted both /dev/sde1 and /dev/sde2, receiving error messages on the console about "lost page write due to I/O error on sde1 [and 2]" I've re-plugged it, and it's been recognized as /dev/sde. I ran a "mount -a" and it's been picked up by the system. No clue where to go from here. Thanks for your help -