I'm assuming it's a 4.02 live CD (basedon the topic subject line). I have a similar issue.

When I attempt to access /dev/sda1, it can't find the device. When I try to look at the partition table with

cfdisk /dev/sda

It can't find the device.

I suspect that modprobe needs an

alias scsi_hostadapter usb-storage

somewhere, but since I'm more familiar with the 2.4 layouts instead of the 2.6 layouts, I'm not sure which file needs to be modified to do this.

lsmod shows that usb-storage is loaded, but a grep of all modprobe/modules related files in /lib/modules and in /etc does not give me a scsi_hostadapter alias.

Where should the alias line go?