On 02/08/17 09:02 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote:
I have a SANDISK usb stick that was formatted as FAT32 on a WIN-7 laptop. It previously has had other formats including at one point was a opensuse-13.2 install stick. In Leap 42.2 it mounts just fine. I plug it in and it is labeled SCANDISK I click on open with file manager and all is fine.
I have 2 42.3 systems where I plug it in and it says:
openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_640051 with 3 options.
I don't understand why it says the above. On a Leap 42.2 it says SANDISK.
I click open with file manager but it can't open. I'm sure that it is just something to do with the stick as I have other USB sticks that work just fine on 42.3. The stick is FAT32 with a volume label of SANDISK. I don't understand why this is happening and I really need this thing to work properly. Can anyone shed some light what might be changed on the stick for Leap 42.3 to treat it correctly?
I would start the investigation by using FDISK or similar to see what that tells me about a few things line the partitioning. Partition IDs for different types of file systems have different codes. There may be a clue there. If its really a ISO image then that's a different matter, but that it CAN be recognised as a file system on your 42.2 system says that there's file system info there. FDISK (or similar) will tell you. You might also use BLKID to see what that tells you about the raw drive and what you think might be a file system on it. I might then use DD and OD to look at the first raw sector of the drive to see it it looks like a partitioned device or a loadable device. How I would proceed then depends on what the above tells me. Do check MAN pages and relevant how-to pages on the 'Net for usage. WORST CASE ========== if nothing else matters I might scrub the drive entirely using DD with an INDEV of /dev/zero then use fdisk to set it whatever I want <sidebar> when I download the RAW images from my camera to the computer I pull the card and plug it into the computer than move from the card to a 'incoming' directory on the computer for further processing and categorization. Then rather than returning the card with files 'deleted' to the camera, I wipe it clean and once back in the camera I have the camera reformat it to the way the camera wants it to be. I've had other photographers questions this process all the way from popping the card into a reader for the computer rather than using a tether and 'uploading' to the wipe-and-reformat. Well, the copy is fast. The reformat ensures there are no problems. It's a belt&braces but it woks and it's reliable. I've never had any problems or 'artefacts' crop up such as the one Mark describes. </sidebar> -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org