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?
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent 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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