usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: WDC WD20 Model: 00JB-00KFA0 Rev: 0 0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: unknown partition table sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb usb-storage: device scan complete toshiba ~ # fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.