problem with usb flash drive.

[Gregory Nowak]

First, are you sure that your drive is in fact being detected as
/dev/sda? What does your output from dmesg say? What is at the end of
your /var/log/messages?

Greg
 
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:14:17PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> I have been following the discussions lately about usb flash drives and
> just yesterday i was given one as a gift. I have been trying what has
> been suggested on this list to no avail. I get the following messages
> when I try to mount /dev/sda[1-4] anywhere.
> 
> Sep 17 12:57:14 tomass kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0
> Sep 17 12:57:14 tomass kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
> Sep 17 12:57:35 tomass kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 0
> Sep 17 12:57:35 tomass kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
> 
> All the correct modules seem to be loaded, but still no go. All the
> modules in this case are usb-storage and sd (for scsi disks) the other
> scsi stuff is compiled into the kernel.
> 
> The drive is an apacer handy-steno 2.0 and it works on a windows xp box
> without any trouble. I would suspect that it doesn't support linux, but
> the packaging says that it is supported by linux versions 2.4.0 and
> later. Oops almost forgot I am running linux 2.4.21 patched with cvs
> speakup, but that shouldn't make a difference. Any tips or advice on
> what to try next would be appreciated.
> 
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> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
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