Re: [ossig] problem with thumb drive

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 00:49 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote:
> > i have problem configure a pendrive with 2 partition
> > on linux.
> 
> USB drives are accessed via the SCSI subsystem and
> typically the first partition is /dev/sda1 and 2nd /dev/sda2
> etc (assuming that you do not already have scsi drives).
> 
> > i test it on windows xp, one partition is recognise as
> > a drive E(behave like as ordinary pendrive), another
> > is regognise as floppy disk,
> > 
> > how do i configure it on linux?
> 
> Try mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 for the 1st one
> and mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 for the 2nd.  I am assuming
> that you have a directory in /mnt/sda1 and /mnt/sda2. 


Also try prodding the drive..

cat /proc/partitions

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