can't find /dev/sda1

[Marc Lijour]

On February 26, 2006 12:38 pm, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> This worked fine yesterday by the way,  to day I tried to mount my
> camera (digital) on /dev/sda1 /media/camera,  the software informs me
> that /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device,  doing ls -l /dev/sd*
> confirmed oddly that /dev/sda1 has vanished,
>
> I need to create a new one, but don't understand the major minor bit of
> the command
>
> mknod --help
>
> so far I have mknod /dev/sda1 b
> where b is the block device,
>
> I have tried googling, and have looked in my debian bible, and unix for
> dummies which I have out of the local library,  Problem with using
> google is that I not 100% sure what I am googling for,  I know what I
> want to do,  but doing a search on "creating /dev/sda1 device) is not
> coming up with much.
>
> more of concern is just how this file has vanished.
>
> Having attempted to fix this, or at least made an attempt to look things
> up I would be grateful for any help
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul

I went there before.

What don't you start by looking at the USB status (usbview, cat /proc/usb***)?
If you use firewire or something else, it is the same idea of course.
My guess is where the root of the problem actually is. And you will more 
likely to find info on that with google.
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