The parition on my external drive is not showing up in /dev.

Hey guys,
I'm doing some work for a friend (she managed to encrypt her home directory in OSX and I'm trying to get to it), and it requires that I mount an external USB drive. As far as I know, the drive is HFS+.
When I plug it in, the device shows up in /dev but none of the partitions do. I have the correct modules loaded. Any ideas? Do yall think it has to do with the enclosure?
NOTE: This friend happens to be really, really cute and owes me a drink for the favor, so I'd really like to fix this.

Maybe this will help.
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