Re: USB Memory Stick issues (After using it in Wyse Terminal (WindowsCE.NET))

From: Ferry van Steen (freaky_at_bananateam.nl)
Date: 07/02/04

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    Date:	Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:49:04 +0200 (CEST)
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    Hey there,

    the patch Andries Brouwer gave me seems to work. That is, I can mount the
    USB stick like:

    mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbstick -t vfat

    the specification of the filesystem is mandatory, mount will not auto
    recognize the filesystem. Unfortunately I can not yet say if it's fully
    compatible with the Wyse Terminal and/or windows 2000 as I'm having a few
    days off and won't be back at work where I can test it until wednesday.
    The files that were put on it by the Wyse are perfectly viewable however
    and I'm able to write as well.

    fdisk -l /dev/sda will still not see any partitions however, dispite that
    it looks to me like there's one on it, judging by the hexdump of the
    device:

    > 00000000 eb fe 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 08 01 00
    |................|
    > 00000010 01 00 01 00 00 f0 fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    |................|
    > 00000020 00 d0 07 00 00 00 29 1e 00 df 07 50 41 52 54 30
    |......)....PART0|
    > 00000030 30 20 20 20 20 20 46 41 54 31 36 20 20 20 00 00 |0 FAT16
    ..|
    > 00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    |................|

    Windows appears to recognize it as a partition as well, but it remains to
    be seen how trustworthy disk management is of course. Especially since it
    doesn't allow me to create nor remove partitions on this device and any
    other usb sticks I've tried.

    Is this going to be included in the kernel, or will there be a more
    elegant solution? In any case, I'm willing to help test it of course.

    Thanks for the help.

    Kind regards,

    Ferry van Steen

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