Messages in this thread | | | From | freaky@bananate ... | Subject | USB Memory Stick issues (After using it in Wyse Terminal (WindowsCE.NET)) | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:44:44 GMT |
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Hey there,
first off, I'm not on the list, so please CC me.
I'm having some issues with my USB memory stick after using it in a Wyse Terminal (WS3125SE with Mass Storage Add-On 1.0 Build 9). Let's get things straight, when I just got the stick it worked just fine, with the partition that was on there. If I repartition it, it works fine as well.
After I stuck my USB stick into the Wyse terminal I lost all data that was on it. Appearantly the Wyse Mass Storage Add-On does -not- like a partition on the device and I think it created some sort of raw file system. This is readable with the standard driver on Windows 2000/XP and under disk management it says that there is a partition (FAT) on it. However, if I look under linux it doesn't show any partitions at all, nor am I able to mount /dev/sda (without partition number) even when specifying vfat or msdos as the filesystem. On 2.6.6 (now running 2.6.7) I also had the weird problem that after this happened, linux would see my drive as a 1GB drive or something whilst it is only a 256MB (according to cfdisk/fdisk, I saw in the archives others had this problem as well, haven't checked this before I had it in the Wyse terminal).
Anyways, I'm able to use this stick either under linux and windows with a partition on it, -or- under wyse terminal and windows, with appearantly no partition on it. Although disk management under windows does show a partition, for some strange reason it does not allow you to delete nor create partitions on usb sticks.
Is there any way I can get it work with this strange filesystem on it? Perhaps other devices use this 'filesystem?' by default too, as I've seen several tests where USB sticks did show up as a SCSI device, but weren't able to mount them and didn't show partitions.
Sorry if this has been asked before, I did a fair share of searching but couldn't dig up anything that seems related to this problem.
If I can help in any way please let me know.
Kind regards,
Ferry van Steen
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