USB SanDisk doesn't work
John Austin
ja at jaa.org.uk
Mon Aug 6 21:43:40 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:24 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:09:36 +0100, John Austin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:26 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> >> [quoted text muted]
> >
> > Mine looks like this
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 2007-08-06 21:54 /dev/sdc
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 33 2007-08-06 21:54 /dev/sdc1
> >
> > You only mention the "whole" disk /dev/sdb
> > Hopefully /dev/sdb1 is there
> >
> > Mine auto mounts and shows up as follows
> > /dev/sdc1 on /media/WIN98 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,uid=202,utf8,shortname=lower)
> >
> > If /dev/sdb1 is there and not mounted then mount it as suggested by Randy
> >
> > If no /dev/sdb1 or similar then have a look with fdisk - but be careful!
> >
> > fdisk can do very nasty things to your stick/disk
> > Stick to p for print and q for quit for now.
> >
> >
> > Again mine looks like this
> >
> > [root at naxos ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc
> >
> > Command (m for help): p
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdc: 999 MB, 999816704 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdc1 * 1 122 976352 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> > phys=(120, 254, 63) logical=(121, 141, 19)
> >
> > Command (m for help): q
> >
> > [root at naxos ~]#
> >
> >
> > John
>
> The only /dev/sdb* is /dev/sdb . No /dev/sdb1 appears.
> Noting your admonition to be careful, I took a look
> at man fdisk . It appears the appropriate command on
> my version of fdisk is:
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> It returns, having printed nothing.
>
> Mike.
>
>
>
Important questions
How does it appear in XP as fat32 or NTFS or .....
Has the disk any data on it ?
Has it ever been partitioned or formatted ?
How big is the device MB/GB
No entries in the partition table suggest it has not been partitioned or
formatted.
BUT
I do have a USB stick that mounts as /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,uid=202,utf8,shortname=lower)
I believe this to be unusual !!
John
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