Microsoft and USB.

T. Ribbrock emgaron at gmx.net
Tue Sep 21 14:26:54 UTC 2004


On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:57:24AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
[...]

> I had a USB stick that would not work in Linux and found out that it 
> needed to be re-partitioned and formatted under Linux to work.  This 
> was from the manufacturers own documentation.

This has happened to me with most USB sticks I came across. In all
cases, the partition table was screwed up (overlapping partitions).
'doze doesn't seem to case but Linux refuses to mount it.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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