Sorry, it?s actually a usb pen drive, with 128MB of space. It was default formatted when I got it. I mounted the drive in another machine and it came up fine. When I do mount on this machine, I get this: /dev/sda1 on /media/UDISK_2_0 type vfat I was thinking that the usb port on the first machine is bad, but if it?s bad, why would the light come on when I plug in the drive? Is there a way to test the usb port? Thanks, Charles Li --- Erik Hemdal <ehemdal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Its formated as vfat. When I plug it in, the > light on > > the drive stays on for about 1 minute and then its > > off. Also, I did not get anything from the > > /var/log/messages file with the tail -f. When I > do a > > fdisk -l, it did not show up as well. ??? > > Charles: Let's see what we have here. Maybe a > little more information will > help to fix the problem. > > What kind/size of USB disk are you using? I have a > 120GB Maxtor drive and a > 160GB Iomega HDD disk and both are happy. > > Is the disk connected to the computer when the > system boots? If so the > output of 'dmesg' should show you what device file > belongs to the disk. > > Were you able to determine the device file name, > like '/dev/sda1' or > '/dev/sdb2', that it is using? > > When you say that the disk is formatted as vfat, > does this mean that you > executed the mkfs command? You would have done > something like > > mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 > > to do this. > > I had a problem with the virgin format on my Iomega > disk from the factory. > Although the partitions were acceptable to Windows, > parted reported that > partitions were overlapped and the disk was not > usable on Linux. I had > similar results to yours: the disk would spin up, > run for a bit, and then > shut down. After using mkfs, I was able to use the > disk (I used ext3 > instead of vfat to get support for large files). > But out of the box, it did > not work. The Maxtor disk had no issues once I > discovered the proper device > file name. > > Perhaps this will give you some ideas that will help > you solve the problem. > Remember that running mkfs will take a long time on > a large disk (mine took > about an hour), and WILL DESTROY DATA on the disk. > > Erik > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
