Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 11/22/05, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>         root@jmaa ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/plextor_memstick
>         Disk /dev/plextor_memstick: 1050 MB, 1050934784 bytes
>         129 heads, 19 sectors/track, 837 cylinders
>         Units = cylinders of 2451 * 512 = 1254912 bytes
>
>                         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>         /dev/plextor_memstick1   *           1         838     1026294    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
>         Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>              phys=(842, 128, 19) logical=(837, 58, 18)
>
> So, there is really a partition. This is the original partitioning. I
> didn't change it because I want to keep it vfat, in case I need to use
> it on a Mac (or even on a Windows PC, who knows?).

Ok, do dmesg and /proc/partitions agree that there is a partition
there?  If not, then the problem is that the kernel is not recognizing
your partition table.  I would suggest:

<insert the key>
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
<remove then re-insert the key>
fdisk /dev/sdb
<create single partition, type 'b'>
mkfs.vfat -n MYKEY -F 32 /dev/sda1

FAIR WARNING: the above _will_ destroy all data on the key!!

After this, I things should work normally...I hope.

-Richard

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