USB Pen Drive Crisis

[Wolfgang]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 23:17, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Friday 12 March 2004 11:53, Wolfgang wrote:
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> > 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
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> It seems that some OSes directly format the device without making a partition 
> table, such that you have to actually mount /dev/sda for example.  Others 
> make the partition table during the partition / format process and then 
> you're looking at mounting /dev/sda1 for example.
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> No idea if that was actually the problem but I thought it worth mentioning.
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> - -Andy
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That's possible. This was a new device, I took out of a NEW box today
(Never been opened before). It was driving me nuts, until I accidentally
fell upon trying the approach I mentioned above.

Wolf