On Sunday 13 May 2007 20:28, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > David Fletcher wrote: > > You may want to run, as root, "fdisk -l" and see if the flash drive > is detected. Depending on the partition type, and if the disk has a > label, it may be getting detected, but not auto-mounted. I have a CF > card that works that way: > > Disk /dev/sda: 8 MB, 8028160 bytes > 2 heads, 32 sectors/track, 245 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 245 7824 4 FAT16 <32M > > But another card in the same reader mounts no problem: > > Disk /dev/sda: 15 MB, 15990784 bytes > 4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 244 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 243 15536 1 FAT12 > > I suspect that if I ever get around to reformatting the 8 MB card as > a FAT12 card, it will mount properly also... > > While this will not solve your problem, knowing if the system > detects it, and if so, how it sees the drive, should help point to > the problem. But if you are in a hurry to get it working, you may be > able to solve the problem giving the drive a "name". For an ext2/3 > partition, e2label works. For a FAT partition, it is easy to do in > Windows, but I am not sure how to do it in Linux except on a new > partition. (mkdosfs -n option.) > > Mikkel I get:- <start> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1211 9727326 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1212 24320 185623042+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1212 3123 15358108+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda6 3124 3136 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda7 3137 24320 170160448+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 172.1 GB, 172100681728 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20923 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdb: 2063 MB, 2063073280 bytes 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7870 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 7870 2014704 e W95 FAT16 (LBA) <end> The last device, /dev/sdb1 appears to be my USB flash drive. I've used windows to name the drive, which is the name given (in all upper case) to the desktop icon when I mount it using my son's computer. But it still won't work as it did a day or two ago on my computer, so I conclude that something got broken in the last batch of updates. Dave -- Registered Linux user number 393408 I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763
