Peter N. Spotts wrote:
usb-storage: device found at 11 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 1-2.7: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 12 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x8204 Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch II Rev: 023g Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sda at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete
So the disk is working fine and is available as /dev/sda.
One final, gulp, observation. I used the Yast2 partitioner to see what it could tell me about what already may be existing on the two drives. When I aimed it at the Maxtor, the entire disk read, gulp, "free." The iRiver, by contrast, shows an existing FAT32. Why do I think I can guess the answer to this already? :-/
If I've inadvertantly trashed the Maxtor, any recommendations on the best file format to use to partition it? Sigh...
If you know more or less what it's partition-format was, you could simply try to recreate it - i.e. if the entire stick was used for one partition, just use fdisk to recreate that. Then try to mount /dev/sda1. File-system - if you need to reformat - depends on what you use it for - if you need to exchange with multiple operating system, e.g. Linux and Windows, pick the lowest common denominator. Probably VFAT. /Per Jessen, Zürich