On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Julie Zhu wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone point to me where "sda1" is printed in the following print > out after connecting a USB thumb drive to the host controller on an > embedded system? > > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ativa 2GB 7.01 PQ: 0 > ANSI: 0 CCS > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 3907583 512-byte hardware sectors (2001 MB) > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 3907583 512-byte hardware sectors (2001 MB) > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through > sda:<7>usb-storage: queuecommand called > sda1 <--- ?? > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 > > I have searched both drivers/scsi/ and usb/storage/, but without > success. It is printed by put_partition() in fs/partitions/check.h, called by msdos_partition() in fs/partitions/msdos.c. > I noticed that some thumb drives have this printed out, and some do not, > I want to figure out why. These thumb drives are similar or exactly the > same, but used by different people. That's because some thumb drives have a partition table and some don't. Try running "fdisk -l /dev/sda" on them and you'll see. 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
