On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> So if it really is partitioned, we'll have to figure out why the
> kernel is not seeing your partition table. I would be interested to
> see the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' with the stick inserted.
>
No /dev/sda. But there exists /dev/plextor_memstick. However:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fdisk -l plextor_memstick
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount -t auto /dev/plextor_memstick /mnt/pen
mount: block device /dev/plextor_memstick is write-protected, mounting
read-only
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /mnt/pen
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ umount /mnt/pen
umount: /mnt/pen: not mounted
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fdisk -l plextor_memstick
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount -t vfat /dev/plextor_memstick /mnt/pen
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/plextor_memstick, missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Well, let's try again. I remove the stick and plug it again. Now there
are both /dev/plextor_memstick and /dev/plextor_memstick1 !
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount /mnt/pen
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /mnt/pen
teste teste~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/fstab|grep pen
/dev/plextor_memstick1 /mnt/pen vfat
noauto,user,noexec,nodev,rw,noatime,conv=auto,uni_xlate,posix 0 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ umount /mnt/pen
~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/plextor_memstick
Disk /dev/plextor_memstick: 1050 MB, 1050934784 bytes
129 heads, 19 sectors/track, 837 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2451 * 512 = 1254912 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
System
/dev/plextor_memstick1 * 1 838 1026294 e
W95 FAT16 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(842, 128, 19) logical=(837, 58, 18)
So, there is really a partition. This is the original partitioning. I
didn't change it because I want to keep it vfat, in case I need to use
it on a Mac (or even on a Windows PC, who knows?).
Would it be a good idea to reformat the disk using fdisk? Maybe the
problem lies with crappy windows tools?
Thanks,
Jorge
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