On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have some update firmware on a vfat key. While that system reports the > key as being plugged in when I do the insertion, when I ask its update > facility to do an update, the sandisks led blinks a time or 2 & reports it > can't find the update. Have you tried mounting the VFAT filesystem and getting a file listing to see what's there? How about running dosfsck on the filesystem's partition? > I tried to mountr it as fat32, but linux says it has no knowledge of > fat32, yet the target system is expecting fat32 only. FAT32 support is part of the regular FAT support. If your kernel understands FAT filesystems at all then it understands FAT32. > Is this something I can fix with a fresh usb key? Probably not. In fact, this probably has nothing to do with USB at all. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html