Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote: > >> is the memorex usb thumbdrive workable, able to mount? > > > yes .. most any usb will work under *nix > > you just need to have the usb drivers for the usb controller on > your mb lspci | grep usb > > - check the kernel options against the lspci output > > but your kernel supports the usb controller > > >> Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 508378384 Buffer >> I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 508378384 FAT: invalid >> media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev >> sdb1. > > > says your kernel does not support FAT16 > >> fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > > since it finds the fat16 partition you do NOT have a usb problem > >> Disk /dev/sdb: 499 MB, 499122176 bytes 32 heads, 16 >> sectors/track, 1904 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = >> 262144 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sdb1 * 1 1904 487416 e W95 FAT16 >> (LBA) > > > c ya alvin> > > Here is the output of lspci -vv | grep USB
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- here is an lsmod lsmod vfat 13920 0 fat 53756 1 vfat msdos 10400 0 adfs 21924 0 usb_storage 76384 0 usbhid 36480 0 uhci_hcd 32176 0 usbcore 122300 6 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,usblp,usbhid,uhci_hcd ata_piix 9636 0 evdev 9728 0 dm_mod 60540 0 sr_mod 17380 0 sg 39040 0 sata_promise 10308 0 libata 49604 2 ata_piix,sata_promise ide_scsi 17700 0 vfat 13920 0 fat 53756 2 msdos,vfat udf 92964 0 isofs 37304 0 smbfs 69432 0 ntfs 113872 2 hpfs 80644 0 autofs4 18596 0 radeon 80256 0 drm 67732 1 radeon ati_agp 8972 0 agpgart 35560 3 intel_agp,drm,ati_agp loop 17608 0 sd_mod 19664 0 scsi_mod 138472 7 usb_storage,sr_mod,sg,sata_promise,libata,ide_scsi,sd_mod ide_cd 43140 0 fat16 wouldnt fall under vfat or msdos. dang is there a debian kernel w/fat16 support or would it be better to just reformat in a vfat partition? possible? thanks again
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