Mine also refused to work, because of what someone else mentioned (the missing partition table), so I think this is more of a manufacturer not following standards (or not caring cause Windows doesn't need a partition table). On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 06:53, Wolfgang wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 20:33, Adam Cooper wrote: > [snip] > > > Funnily enough my MP3 Player/USB Drive has started to do this whereas it > > worked before. (Before being, before I installed kernel 2.6 from > > Aranjv). > > > > It's definitely not the device since it plays music fine and mounts on > > windows boxes. > > > > Are there any fixes for this? > > > > Thanks for the help > > Adam > > > > This might sound like a weird scenario but, I went to connect a brand > new USB Pen Drive onto my RH9 box at work. No matter what I did or what > I setup, RH9 just refused to mount the device. (The device what seen, > and recognised and all that) Since we also have a combination of Win-XP > & 2K boxes at the office, I decided to check it out on one of them. As > usual, it worked (And also surprisingly it worked!! :-)). I checked the > drive out, and sure enough, it was formatted for FAT. So for the hell of > it I reformatted it on Win-XP. Then put it back on the RH9 box, and > still no go!. > > I decided to try it on the Win2K box, and it read it ok too. So I then > reformatted it on the Win-2K box, and then went back to the RH9 box, and > low and behold it worked!!. I was seen to have 4 partitions, (It's a 1G > USB Pen Drive) and the manual indicated that it would be the case, and I > then followed the procedure to reconfigure it for a single partition and > all worked very well. Put it back into the Win-XP/2K boxes and they > still read it ok! Go figure!! > > I don't really know why, RH9 would not read the USB pen drive, but I > managed to get it to work eventually. The only problem, here is, "What > would someone do if they had no other resources to correct this sort of > problem??" > > I hope that some of my ranting will help. > > Wolf > > -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
