Re: usb-thumb memorex? ???
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote:
> is the memorex usb thumbdrive workable, able to mount?
yes .. most any usb will work under *nix
you just need to have the usb drivers for the usb controller
on your mb
lspci | grep usb
- check the kernel options against the lspci output
but your kernel supports the usb controller
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 508378384
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 508378384
> FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
says your kernel does not support FAT16
> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
since it finds the fat16 partition you do NOT have a usb problem
> Disk /dev/sdb: 499 MB, 499122176 bytes
> 32 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1904 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 * 1 1904 487416 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
c ya
alvin>
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