Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

I cannot access my Jumpdrive from a Etch box with a 2.6.15 kernel.

I have successfully used this Lexar 256 MB Jumpdrive Pro (usb 2.0) with 
Sarge box and a 2.6.11 kernel compiled from source.

With Sarge it is recognized as SCSI device sda and located at 
/dev/sda1.  It can be mounted and has a vfat file system.

With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located at /dev/sg1.  
It cannot be mounted, mount fails with a message that /dev/sg1 is not a 
block device.

What I really wanted to do was install Damm Small Linux on this drive.  
cdrecord -scanbus recognized it as SCSIbus 4: 4,0,0  and I hoped I could 
just overwrite the existing vfat file system with the dsl-3.0.1.iso.  
This did not work.  cdrecord stopped with the messages:

      Device seems to be: Generic CCS Disk
      Sorry, no CD/DVD-drive found on this target.

I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to solve this problem.

Tom George