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Hi all, |
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I have just purchased the Vosonic X's-Drive 6230 (hate that |
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punctuation ;) under the promise of linux support... |
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Well, it "doesn't" work for me - there is one or two unhelpful lines of |
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text on their website that mention linux. |
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All I've found so far, is something mentioning the "superfloppy" format |
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(what's that?). Supposedly I can `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp` (note the |
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sda, not sdax) but this doesn't work: |
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$ sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp/ |
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mount: No medium found |
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There is no /dev/sda1, sda2, etc, as per my other usb storage drives |
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(only my internal hard drive shows): |
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$ cat /proc/partitions |
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major minor #blocks name |
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3 0 58605120 hda |
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3 1 40131 hda1 |
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3 2 10498477 hda2 |
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3 3 104422 hda3 |
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3 4 1 hda4 |
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3 5 1060258 hda5 |
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3 6 10594836 hda6 |
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3 7 17157388 hda7 |
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3 8 5783368 hda8 |
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3 9 13366048 hda9 |
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dmesg reports |
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usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 |
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scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices |
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usb-storage: device found at 7 |
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usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning |
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Vendor: Model: VP6230 Rev: 1.07 |
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Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 |
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sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda |
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sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 |
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usb-storage: device scan complete |
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fdisk doesn't work either: |
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$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda |
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Password: |
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Unable to open /dev/sda |
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I heard some whispers of other vosonic owners - how did you get your |
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drive working? I have a plain IBM 20Gb in it at the moment, formatted |
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with the X's Drive itself. |
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The drive shows under windows, after the 3 card reader slots. |
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MTIA! |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. |
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[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.] |
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-- Seneca |
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