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$, but not even recognised under linux. What the manual suggested somewhere is that it had to be formatted under Linux using mkfs.vfat or mkfs.msdos. I went with the latter and till date have no problems. Possible solution for your stick: Try cfdisk /dev/sda If your system can recognise it, then follow the above procedure of creating a partition and formatting it as dos partition from Linux. Do not do it from M$. HTH, Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 This screen intentionally left blank.
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