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Posted: April 02 2004,06:02 |
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Attempting to mount a friend's Kingston DataTraveler 256MB USB 1.1 flash drive in DSL 0.6.2. Don't want to boot from drive (PCs involved won't support USB boot), just want to mount and write data.
The drive has been formatted in "Unix" format in Mac OS X and since then has been reformatted in Windows 98 SE (in vfat? - I don't think there's a choice in 98?). Before and after the attempts to mount in DSL the drive works fine on a Mac w/ OS X and on two different Windows 98 SE PCs, one a 450MHz PIII and the other a 350MHz AMD.
Whether in place when DSL boots or plugged in later, /etc/fstab shows four entries "/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0", etc., through sda4.
If I use mount.app to try to mount any of the four sda's, I get a dialog box titled "Device not ready" and containing "Unable to mount device at this time. [snip] 1) The device isn't quite ready yet [snip] 2) The media is unreadable 3) The mount point directory is in use by another program."
From a shell if I "sudo su" and then "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -t vfat" (or sda2, etc.), I get the error "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1".
If I kill fluxbox, I see on-screen: "/dev/sda1: Input/output error
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified"
Afterwards, I can read or write to the drive in Windows 98 or Mac OS X, so the drive is functioning.
The last formatting of the drive was in Windows 98 SE - am I wrong that this would have been vfat? Anything else I'm doing wrong?
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