SanDisk 256 MB USB key, Mandrake 10.0

From: Bill Dika (bdikaca_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/11/04


Date: 11 Dec 2004 10:30:43 -0800

Thanks for your reply Walter. I hope the information below is what you
are looking for.

Is there something proprietary to Windows going on here?

[root@localhost dad]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 14 5112 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 5367 9964 36933435 f W95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/hda3 5113 5366 2040255 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 5367 7669 18498816 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 7670 9964 18434556 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes
32 heads, 33 sectors/track, 484 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1056 * 512 = 540672 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 485 255984 6 FAT16
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 33)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(254, 31, 33) logical=(484, 27, 5)
[root@localhost dad]#

/var/log/messages
Dec 11 13:07:32 localhost perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto
--add /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
Dec 11 13:07:32 localhost scsi.agent[3994]: disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.3/usb3/3-5/3-5:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0
Dec 11 13:07:40 localhost kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on
dev sda1.
Dec 11 13:08:48 localhost su(pam_unix)[4213]: session opened for user
root by (uid=501)
Dec 11 13:10:00 localhost CROND[4270]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
Dec 11 13:11:07 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0,
sector 0
Dec 11 13:11:07 localhost last message repeated 4 times
Dec 11 13:11:08 localhost automount[2294]: attempting to mount entry
/net/.directory
Dec 11 13:11:08 localhost automount[4284]: >> showmount: can't get
address for .directory
Dec 11 13:11:08 localhost automount[4284]: lookup(program): lookup for
.directory failed
Dec 11 13:11:08 localhost automount[2278]: attempting to mount entry
/misc/.directory
Dec 11 13:11:08 localhost automount[4289]: lookup(file): lookup for
.directory failed
Dec 11 13:13:49 localhost su(pam_unix)[4444]: session opened for user
root by (uid=501)

Regards,
Bill Dika



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