Re: USB disk drive
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:50:06 +0200, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote:
>> Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" to quit.
>
> I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to
> the prompt. Which made me wonder if the device was being bound to
> /dev/sda. I don't have any other scsi devices installed (using 2.6 so
> not using ide-scsi).
On a flash drive I had a similar problem. The default partition
is not useful on the linux side and would cause fdisk /dev/sda
to exit. The only fix (that I know of) is to repartition the
drive. I recall using cfdisk.
Dan
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