Try lsusb -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) jd@twingeckos.com On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2014-08-05 12:30, Michael Havens wrote: > >> something on th hard drive I need though. I have an IDE to USB >> adapter. I connect everything together and open my file manager but the >> >> new device isn't listed in the device menu. Could someone help me get >> into the device? >> > > If you plug a USB device in and it's recognized, it will show up in the > output from dmesg about 1 second after you plug it in as something like > > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through > sdc: sdc1 > > "dmesg | tail -n 40 | grep sd" should give you something like that right > after you've plugged it in. In the example above, the first partition of > the disk is visible at /dev/sdc1 , so I would then do "mount /dev/sdc1 > /mnt/somewhere" to look at the files on it. > > Or you can look at "ls -lt /dev/disk/by-id/" and pick out the most > recently added partition. > > If the filesystem or drive is damaged badly enough, then this might not > work. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >