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From: Petr Kocmid <Petr.Kocmid@××××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:35:28
Message-Id: 200604171726.20737.Petr.Kocmid@project-bhairava.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output. by "Frédéric Grosshans"
1 On Monday 17 April 2006 16:24, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:
2 > Bus 003 Device 006: ID 1043:8006 iCreate Technologies Corp.
3 > Flash Disk 32 MB
4 >
5 > This is a not an iCreate 32MB drive, but a Kingston DataTraveler Elite
6 > 1GB drive. I did some first tests with small files, and it worked OK. I
7
8 Suddenly, I have so called "Kingston DataTraveler" 512M at hand. It shows:
9 Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0ea0:2168 Ours Technology, Inc. Transcend JetFlash
10 2.0 / Astone USB Drive
11
12 Next time, do not believe in logomarks. Kingston is just a trader.
13
14 > then loaded a ~100MB file from a windows computer on the usb key and
15 > went away to travel (It shold be "DataTraveler" disk, after all). I'm
16 > now in China, with no access to this disk :-(.
17
18 What fdisk -l /dev/sda says when you plug it in? You should get something as:
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20 Disk /dev/sda: 521 MB, 521142272 bytes
21 32 heads, 32 sectors/track, 994 cylinders
22 Units = cylinders of 1024 * 512 = 524288 bytes
23
24 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
25 /dev/sda1 * 1 994 508911+ 6 FAT16
26
27 If you see FAT12 on yours, then you have a problem and blame Windows for it,
28 because it formated the disk "for you".
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32 Petr
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Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output. "Frédéric Grosshans" <frederic.grosshans.1995@×××××××××××××.org>