mounting an external hard drive

[reddzer]

how do you mount an external hard drive in linux. when i put my usb in it picks it up in /media but doesnt pick up the external hard drive when its connected. would it be located at some other file path.

P.S. only have access to command line

thanks

[devils casper]

plug-in External Drive and execute this

tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages

check if machine recognizes and assign device name to it.

[reddzer]

plug-in External Drive and execute this

tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages

check if machine recognizes and assign device name to it.

got back
tail: cannot open '/var/log/messages' for reading: Permission denied
tail: no files remaining

[devils casper]

execute su before tail command to gain root privileges.

su
tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages

[reddzer]

command worked
what should i be looking for in the output messages

[devils casper]

device name assigned to External disk.
this is output in my machine

May 24 01:23:13 devils-den kernel: SCSI device sda: 121856 512-byte
May 24 01:23:13 devils-den kernel: sda: Write Protect is on

devie name is sda. check the output of 'fdisk -l' command and note down partition numbers of new device and mount partitions.

[reddzer]

no sign of sda or anything else that might resemble it

[devils casper]

post output here.

[reddzer]

outpu from fdisk -l is:

/dev/hda1 *
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda5
/dev/hda6

hda1 hpfs/ntfs
hda2 linux plaintext
hda3 W95 Ext'd (LBA)
hda5 Linux swap / Solaris
hda6 Linux

[devils casper]

post the output of 'tail' command here.