On Wed January 17 2007 08:13, Rory Slegtenhorst wrote:
Joseph,
Did you repartition it after you bought it?
I have a USB drive which doesn't support to be partitioned... Eg on Linux it's actually mounted on /dev/sda I have another disk without this problem, and it mounts on /dev/sda1...
My iRiver 895 player acts as a USB device after firmware upgrade to UMS-based version, but it also requires no partitions in order for the player to see the music/podcasts. Every couple of months I have to reformat it, because the podcasts start to become corrupted. My recipe for reformatting is: - Use "mount" to find which device is being assigned to the player, say /dev/sda.
su # umount /dev/sda # mkfs -V -t vfat -c -I /dev/sda
The option -I (dash, capital i) is what forces the formatting of the entire disk without partitions. Reboot the device and everything is fine again. Carlos FL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org