Re: [SLUG] usb thumbdrive AAARRGH

From: Mike Branda (mike@wackyworld.tv)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 17:03:00 EST


On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:50 -0600, Levi Bard wrote:
> > So we see usb-storage claim it, we see it attach at sdb, then it whines
> > about resetting port 1. What the heck is that? Then it can't enable
> > port 1, then a bunch of buffer I/O problems, then a bunch more crap and
> > finally, it can't read the partition table which doesn't surprise me as
> > these drives don't really have them by default right?
> >
> > So now what??
>
> Is this a blank disk? Can you mount /dev/sdb? Does this disk/reader
> work with other machines/OSs?

The thumb drive has stuff on it. It's formatted plain old fat according
to XP Pro. It works fine in Windows and OS X. I can copy files to it
and from it in both of the other OS es. I tried to mount it as /dev/sdb
before I originally posted. No Dice.

Mike

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