Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <keeling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Incoming from Adrian Levi:
On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <keeling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a
Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm
ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples:

(0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 39 127 714892+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 * 128 225 787185 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 226 498 2192872+ 83 Linux

Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first
ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the
ptn table?

Please correct me if i'm wrong but I thought that windows could only
handle one primary partition per device. Perhaps that is where your

Is that "USB" device? That's new. HDs can handle four primaries, or
three primaries and an extended which holds many logicals. USB is
different? Those are all primaries up there.

Can windows display 4 primary partitions or are you talking about
linux? I'm specifically talking about windows' ability to display more
than one primary partition on a device be it pen drive, usb hard
drive, sata/ide drive. I'f I'm wrong and windows can display more than
one primary partition on a device please let me know, I'd love to
know.

problem lies. remake your pendrive with cylinders 39 127 as sda5
(extended) and you should be fine I think.

Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create
extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do
for my purposes. I just want WinSPIT to see a couple of fat ptns on
the stick so I can transfer files.

That's what i'd do next.

Adrian

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