On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:01:37 -0700, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > If a drive isn't partitioned, 'sda1' doesn't really mean anything, so > this might not work. You could try to cat 'sda' instead, which should > get the whole drive image, partition table and all. I've never tried > this with usb mass storage devices like CF or SD cards. > > It could be that there is no partition table at all, and that something > like mkfs.vfat /dev/sda might do the trick. I don't really know about > the details of these cards, just what little I know from using them with > my digicam. If all else fails, it's worth a try. >
I don't know if this is really related, but my keychain usb drive came with the partition info already set up such that it had a vfat partition on /dev/sda1. Also, I remember that zip drives (remember those? heh), at least the old 100MB ones, would always show up as the 4th partition (/dev/hda4, /dev/sda4, whatever). I never tried repartitioning, but that's how they were set up by default. Can you run parted or some other fdisk-y tool on it just to see what the partition table looks like? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
