Hi, thanks for your help,

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:12 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:25:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 
> > All I've found so far, is something mentioning the "superfloppy" format
> > (what's that?).  Supposedly I can `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp` (note the
> > sda, not sdax) but this doesn't work: 
> 
> This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it is not
> partitioned.

thats what I presumed, but 1) I can't `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp`; and 2)
in windows I see 4 drives (3 card reader slots, and the internal hd),
not one - how can I get 4 drives from /dev/sda?

> It is detecting sda here, with no partitions, but giving no other
> information. Do you have SCSI disk support in your kernel?

yes - CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y

> Do other USB mass storage devices work with Linux for you?

yep, a small usb card reader, and a laptop harddrive usb enclosure.
Both work great!

thanks,
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