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Re: [LUG] Problems with USB pen-drive...

 

Cool!

Certainly for me i find usbpen's to be a little weird sometimes under
linux. They often work but with some strange behaviour as we've seen here.

:)

Martin.

On Fri, April 15, 2005 15:25, Grant Sewell said:
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.

OK, I just did as you suggested... sort of.

It would appear to now be working fine, when I don't give it any
partitions at all but put the filesystem straight on the drive:
# mkfs.vfat -I -F 32 /dev/sda
mkfs.vfat 2.10 (22 Sep 2003)
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/pendrive
# df -h | grep -i "pendrive"
/dev/sda              489M  4.0K  489M   1% /mnt/pendrive

Cheers all.

Grant.
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