Re: USB Jumpdrive problems and Gnome: Don't use GPILOTD

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On Tuesday August 31 2004 22:01, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:12:38 -0500, Sam Williams wrote
>
> > I have been having difficult with usb thumb style drives and FC1 /
> > FC2 for a long time. I have scoured the web for reports of similar
> > problems and solutions. While I found quite a number of problem reports
> > there were no solutions. In fact, to the contrary, people seemed to
> > abandon the search.
> >
> > Recently I purchased a Lexar JumpDrive (128 mbytes), which replaced the
> > 256 Mbytes Sandisk MiniCruiser that I just knew was bad. Well, it worked
> > great and I didn't give it a second thought.... My wife, kind soul that
> > she is, went out and bought me the 256 Mbyte Lexar Jumpdrive. I was
> > excited. I had another jumpdrive with twice the capacity.... I was
> > shocked when I plugged it into my system and had the exact problem I
> > had seen with the MiniCruiser. The problem scenario looks like a
> > defective device. The system tries multiple-times to mount it, then
> > ultimately comes up with some timeout messages and a message that says
> > that the fat filesystem is unreadable!!!
> >
> > After many days I have found the source of the problem. If I have
> > gpilotd ( version 2.0.10) running on my system I can mount and use
> > 128Mbyte jumpdrives and lower, but it will not allow me to use anything
> > of higher capacity then this. If I kill or pause the gpilotd, EVERYTHING
> > works just fine!!! I can use both of my 256 Mbyte usb drives as well
> > as all the lower capacity ones that I now own....
> >
> > Gpilotd has some real problems. It is somehow getting in the way of
> > my use of the jump drives, and it will not allow an easy hot-sync
> > with my Sony Clie. I have to try multiple times. Sometimes I have to
> > try and then recycle the gpilotd, before I can get a successful
> > sync. There is a real problem with this daemon.... Sadly, I think
> > I'm the only person that has seen this relationship..
> >
> > Anyway, for all of you that have been having these types of usbdrive
> > problems I would suggest you make sure and try it without gpilotd
> > running in the mix....
> >
> > --
> > Sam Williams                                             samurai@xxxxxxx
>
> [snip]
>
> I've had simlar problems with an Apacer HT202 (1GB). I've noticed that the
> format on these devices are not of the standard configuration. As it would
> not mount on my system either. However, it had some instructions in the
> manual to reconfigure the drive. And now it works perfectly. I'm not
> familar with your device, but if you goto this site (below), and download
> the manual. It has the instructions there on how to reformat it, so you can
> mount it properly in Linux.
>
> http://www.apacer.com/apacer_english/product_html/handy_steno_ht202.asp
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Wolf
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I just did this yesterday to a Lexar 256mb jumpdrive sport.  Fdisk followed by 
mke2fs followed by mount.  Default partitioning on Lexar appears to be FAT16



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