From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Elncb-0003w1-VO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:21:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBCDK2EH025472; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:20:02 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (whirlwind.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBCDFAc5022348 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:15:11 GMT Received: from orpheus (220-253-117-32.SA.netspace.net.au [220.253.117.32]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455F312E8EC for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:15:07 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive) From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051212091222.3e92517f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <1134370547.11751.9.camel@orpheus> <20051212091222.3e92517f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:44:35 +0930 Message-Id: <1134393275.12060.2.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 05554e1b-8c5d-44af-afa1-e28692d3804f X-Archives-Hash: 2c73f982ab78e974fb043af03c795c57 Hi, thanks for your help, On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:12 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:25:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > All I've found so far, is something mentioning the "superfloppy" format > > (what's that?). Supposedly I can `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp` (note the > > sda, not sdax) but this doesn't work: > > This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it is not > partitioned. thats what I presumed, but 1) I can't `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp`; and 2) in windows I see 4 drives (3 card reader slots, and the internal hd), not one - how can I get 4 drives from /dev/sda? > It is detecting sda here, with no partitions, but giving no other > information. Do you have SCSI disk support in your kernel? yes - CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y > Do other USB mass storage devices work with Linux for you? yep, a small usb card reader, and a laptop harddrive usb enclosure. Both work great! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list