[aklug] Confused -- manually mounting usb in Debian

Hi. I want to know how to manually mount a usb stick on my debian
system, but I'm a bit confused about something.

After I plug in my usb stick into an available usb port (same results
with different ports), I run dmesg and get this at the end:
[318078.208027] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 13
[318078.341035] usb 3-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[318078.341270] scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[318078.341402] usb 3-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
[318078.341405] usb 3-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[318078.341408] usb 3-6: Product: U3 Cruzer Micro
[318078.341409] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[318078.341411] usb 3-6: SerialNumber: 43172107D081D855
[318078.341425] usb-storage: device found at 13
[318078.341427] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[318083.340369] usb-storage: device scan complete
[318083.340857] scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk
Cruzer 7.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[318083.341359] scsi 12:0:0:1: CD-ROM SanDisk
Cruzer 7.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[318083.342465] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] 3907583 512-byte hardware sectors
(2001 MB)
[318083.343102] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[318083.343107] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[318083.343110] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[318083.344841] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] 3907583 512-byte hardware sectors
(2001 MB)
[318083.345479] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[318083.345514] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[318083.345516] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[318083.345523] sde: sde1
[318083.347185] sd 12:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk

This suggests it detected the usb stick and it is an sde device.

However, there is no sde block file in my /dev/ directory. The closest
things are:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd

However, when I try (as root) to mount these with
mount /dev/sda /media/usb (after creating the usb directory, of course)
The only message I get is 'mount: no medium found'. Same with
/dev/sdb... etc.

I thought sda - sdd were for the floppy drive. So why don't I have a
/dev/sde block file? Am I supposed to create/install one? How do I do
that?

Any help would be appreciated. I tried googling all over the place, but
all examples/tutorials just assume there is a /dev/sde or /dev/sde1
device file present.

-- 
Christopher Howard
choward@indicium.us
http://www.indicium.us
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