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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:12:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051212091222.3e92517f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1134370547.11751.9.camel@orpheus>

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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.

> dmesg reports
> 
> usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 7
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor:           Model: VP6230            Rev: 1.07
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete

It is detecting sda here, with no partitions, but giving no other
information. Do you have SCSI disk support in your kernel?

> The drive shows under windows, after the 3 card reader slots.

Do other USB mass storage devices work with Linux for you?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-12  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-12  6:55 [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive) Iain Buchanan
2005-12-12  9:12 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-12-12 13:14   ` Iain Buchanan
2005-12-12 13:54     ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-12 17:43       ` Richard Fish
2005-12-13  2:27         ` Iain Buchanan
2005-12-13  5:24           ` [gentoo-user] vosonic usb drive, SCSI_MULTI_LUN, won't boot Iain Buchanan
2005-12-13  8:48           ` [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive) Neil Bothwick
2005-12-14  5:41             ` Iain Buchanan
2005-12-14  7:22               ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-12-14 10:51               ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-14 13:06                 ` Iain Buchanan
2005-12-12  9:24 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-12-12 13:19   ` Iain Buchanan
2005-12-17  1:14 ` [gentoo-user] x86 setup-script Andy Stern
2005-12-17  2:37   ` Iain Buchanan

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