On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:39 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, > > 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-stick > > from M$ and can't mount it. Actually the stick is from Swissbit and > > according to its homepage it is supported by 2.4+ kernels. How can I run > > this thing under my machine? > > > > Here is dmesg output: > > > > hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 3 > > usb.c: kmalloc IF c5216d60, numif 1 > > usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 > > usb.c: USB device number 3 default language ID 0x409 > > Manufacturer: SWISSBIT > > Product: Twist > > SerialNumber: 408E8FAE062113B6 > > WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured > > USB Mass Storage device found at 3 > > usb.c: usb-storage driver claimed interface c5216d60 > > usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug add 3 > > usb.c: kusbd policy returned 0xfffffffe > > hub.c: port 2, portstatus 100, change 0, 12 Mb/s > > > > Here is the error message: > > > > $ mount /mnt/usb/ > > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > > I had somewhat similar problem when I tried using my Apacer USB stick on > my machine. It was perfectly readable and writable under M$, but not > even recognised under linux. What the manual suggested somewhere is that > it had to be formatted under Linux using mkfs.vfat or mkfs.msdos. I went > with the latter and till date have no problems. > > Possible solution for your stick: > > Try cfdisk /dev/sda > > If your system can recognise it, then follow the above procedure of > creating a partition and formatting it as dos partition from Linux. Do > not do it from M$. You'd think, though, that syslog would at least mention /dev/sda. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public treasury: they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union: they may seek the provision of the poor ... [all of which] would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America." James Madison, 1789
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part