On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:56:49 +0100, Mick wrote:

> Some USB sticks are formatted as floppy disks (?) and show up
> as /dev/sda (instead of /dev/sda1).  I have had no problems mounting
> these in Linux or MSWindows, but wouldn't know how to format them in
> Linux.

mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdX

> Their partitions look all over the shop. 

> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 1022 MB, 1022623744 bytes
> 32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1952 * 512 = 999424 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x69737369
> 
> This doesn't look like a partition table

That's because there are no partitions and no partition table, the
filesystem filled the unpartitioned disk. The Sony E-Reader uses this
method for its internal flash storage and KDE has no problems
automounting it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too