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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:01:37 +0000 Martin White wrote:
Contrary to any popular logic i normally have to drop the 1 and just do a "mount -t auto /dev/sdb /mnt/usbpen" (sda is my SATA drive, so it's sdb for me). There was a version of 2.6 kernel where USB mass storage device was hopelessly broken. Not sure which it was but worth bearing in mind. Oops, hang on. 2.6.10 should be fine, it was something like 2.6.3. I know i've used 2.6.9 and 11 with usbpens so it isn't that. If you've nothing much on there to loose would it be worth formatting it from within linux? Never tried that so don't know if it would work out or not... Martin.
Cheers all. I have now tried changing the fstype to all manner of things, and they all present in exactly the same way: there still remains a (non-existant) device /dev/sda1p1 that has the same filesystem type as the parent (sda1); and /dev/sda1 still won't mount. I have been onto Kingston's tech support people and the response I have had so-far is this:
if it's not possible to format it at all, the likelihood that the controller might be defective is the posisble cause. If you could try to format it on another, non-LINUX system with the following syntax: FORMAT <drive letter>: /FS:FAT32 Let me know if that worked at all; if not we have to repalce it.
Please note that the email I sent them was almost identical to the one I posted here. Did anyone here mention of me trying to format it? Pah! Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html