First, are you sure that your drive is in fact being detected as /dev/sda? What does your output from dmesg say? What is at the end of your /var/log/messages? Greg On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:14:17PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I have been following the discussions lately about usb flash drives and > just yesterday i was given one as a gift. I have been trying what has > been suggested on this list to no avail. I get the following messages > when I try to mount /dev/sda[1-4] anywhere. > > Sep 17 12:57:14 tomass kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 > Sep 17 12:57:14 tomass kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector > Sep 17 12:57:35 tomass kernel: I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 0 > Sep 17 12:57:35 tomass kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector > > All the correct modules seem to be loaded, but still no go. All the > modules in this case are usb-storage and sd (for scsi disks) the other > scsi stuff is compiled into the kernel. > > The drive is an apacer handy-steno 2.0 and it works on a windows xp box > without any trouble. I would suspect that it doesn't support linux, but > the packaging says that it is supported by linux versions 2.4.0 and > later. Oops almost forgot I am running linux 2.4.21 patched with cvs > speakup, but that shouldn't make a difference. Any tips or advice on > what to try next would be appreciated. > > -- > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more > carefully than others. > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
