On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located at /dev/sg1. > > It cannot be mounted, mount fails with a message that /dev/sg1 is not > > a block device. > > The sg* devices are generic SCSI devices. Each SCSI device has an > associated sg device that is different from the device that you would > normally use to access the drive, and may provide some extra > functionality. If the drive is recognized as device sdb, then you > should be mounting /dev/sdb*.
I would if I could. When the drive is hotplugged it is assigned to /dev/sg1 not /dev/sb1. That is the problem. > > > What I really wanted to do was install Damm Small Linux on this drive. > > cdrecord -scanbus recognized it as SCSIbus 4: 4,0,0 and I hoped I > > could just overwrite the existing vfat file system with the > > dsl-3.0.1.iso. This did not work. cdrecord stopped with the > > messages: > > > Device seems to be: Generic CCS Disk Sorry, no CD/DVD-drive > > found on this target. > > Huh? You're trying to use a CD burning program to write to a USB stick? > I can't imagine that that would have any chance of working. Yeah, that was really stupid. I don't know where my head was on that one. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
