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 > -- > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) 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
