[ale] External USB drive is detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

[fd0man at gmail.com (Michael B. Trausch)]

Chris Paquin wrote:
> Does anyone know why this would do this? This is an external drive in an
> enclosure. I plug it in and bam, two icons appear on my fedora desktop
> for the new media device. One obviously is useless but cannot be deleted
> or moved to trash as I get the error "failed to mount device".
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 

In addition to what Jim P. requested, can you also send the output from
dmesg and "cat /proc/partitions" after plugging the device in?

	- Mike

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