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On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36, Mick wrote: |
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> A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought |
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> it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help |
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> with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it |
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> seems that Linux is also struggling to get to it: |
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> sda: assuming drive cache: write through |
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> sda: unknown partition table |
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Might not help you in this case, but I seem to remember that, for some |
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USB pens at least, if you format the drive using the windows "utility" |
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that comes with the device, it screws up the partition table and uses |
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the whole /dev/sda device to create a single fat32 filesystem. I'm |
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fairly sure I saw one of two of these in the past. |
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So, have you tried mounting it using just |
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mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/somewhere |
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