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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hon5N-0008BM-QT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:00:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4HKxCRf029241; Thu, 17 May 2007 20:59:12 GMT Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HKsdb7024442 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 20:54:40 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HKsZeC016222 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 22:54:36 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:27:11 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705172327.11996.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: f3f2f745-47f9-4f5c-8a18-4ff503d64139 X-Archives-Hash: 5f577ba04fb05918d5b5ef0f7f92df04 On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36, Mick wrote: > A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought > it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help > with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it > seems that Linux is also struggling to get to it: >[cut] > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > sda: unknown partition table Might not help you in this case, but I seem to remember that, for some USB pens at least, if you format the drive using the windows "utility" that comes with the device, it screws up the partition table and uses the whole /dev/sda device to create a single fat32 filesystem. I'm fairly sure I saw one of two of these in the past. So, have you tried mounting it using just mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/somewhere ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list