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Re: M$ USB-key



On Saturday 04 December 2004 12:33, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote:
> David Purton wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote:
> >>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
>
> Sorry, I forgot "not" in this sentence. The right version is "..., but
> now it is not software it is hardware"
>
> > Are you sure sda1 is the right device?
>
> All other USB keys and digital cameras I mount succesful on this device
>
> > For some reason, my key uses /dev/sda
> >
> > try
> >
> > mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt
> >
> > and see if that works
>
> Unfortunately not!

Look in /proc/partitions when the stick is inserted, and see what partitions
the kernel thinks are there.  I have also met devices which were partitioned
as logical partitions, so the first one was /dev/sda4.

However it would also be worth investigating the hotplug error code.

David

>
> Yevgen



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