On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 01:08, Adam Voigt wrote: > 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 [snip] I agree, but the documentation (For the device mentioned), ran through the procedure, of putting on a partition etc (And it worked by the book, once I got it formatted correctly). The main problem was to get Linux to mount it in the first place. Wolf
