On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

>
> Check this out:
> 	bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ sudo mount sda1 flash
> 	mount: special device sda1 does not exist
>
> I always thought the 's' was to be interpreted as 'scsi'. Looks like I was
> wrong! It stands for 'special'. This why it mounts flash cards here.

It does mean "scsi".

Have a look at the Linux source, Documentation/devices.txt:
  0 = /dev/sda          First SCSI disk whole disk

With your mount command use full path to the special device (/dev/sda1).


   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/