Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 07:22:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China > before going into the cases with those trademarks on them. Definitely. Tell me where else to find high-skilled cheap labour and good tech infrastructure. A

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China before going into the cases with those trademarks on them. On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > I take two lessons out of it: > > > > (1) quality of those things scatt

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I take two lessons out of it: > > (1) quality of those things scatters widely. Do take Marco's > advise seriously and have always a Plan B. In my case, it's > Just A Backup (TM), so I make it so my main disk doesnt > fail until I find a replacement stick ;-@

Re: USB memory stick plugged in - mouse stops

2010-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 12/07/10 10:43, Alan Chandler wrote: In the last few days, I have noticed that when I plug in the memory stick my mouse stops responding. I think it must be hardware related. I just tried moving to another USB slot on the front, and that is working without any problem. Forgive the nois

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 13:13:50, J.H.Kim wrote: > dosfsck made my usb stick works fine~ > Thank you. > > The following message was the result of "dosfsck /dev/sdb1" : > > frog1120:/home/frog# dosfsck -a /dev/sdb1 > > dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN > There are differences between boot sector

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread J . H . Kim
2008/10/10 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2008-10-09 18:03 +0200, J.H.Kim wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/USB DISK$ df /media/USB* > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sdb1 976996945752 31244 97% /media/USB DISK > > > >

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-09 18:03 +0200, J.H.Kim wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/USB DISK$ df /media/USB* > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 976996945752 31244 97% /media/USB DISK > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/USB DISK$ du -s > 443576 . > >

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread J . H . Kim
> > a) please don't cc me - I read the list > b) please don't top post > -> I'm sorry. So, back to your question: > > I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. > > In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch > > the device can save only 450MB data. > > When ove

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:27 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Thanks for answer. > > The result of "df /media/USB*" is > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvailable Use% > Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 976996914420 62576 > 94% /media/USB DISK > > But when the /media/USB

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread J . H . Kim
Thanks for answer. The result of "df /media/USB*" is Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvailable Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 976996914420 62576 94% /media/USB DISK But when the /media/USB DISK directory is seen on File Manager, the size of the contents i

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-08 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:58 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, eveyone > > I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. > In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch > the device can save only 450MB data. > When over 450MB data is to be copied to that disk, the error mess

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-15 Thread Herb Howe
Thanks to all who responded to my original post. The problem is apparently that USB memory sticks and flash cards (and probably other external memory cards) often have unique formatting that is understood by Windows but not by Linux. The best solution suggested so far (from Juha Tuuna, shown below

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:47:41AM -0800 Herb Howe mumbled: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Wayne Topa
John W. Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > FWIW: My usb stick did not mount as sda* because I was mounting it in a card > reader of several slots. My hardware management system decided that each slot > was "sde*" so check you syslog output & look at the output of dmesg. > > Wh

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:01 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > > > Here's the setup: > > > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > >

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers > >

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 12. January 2007 16:47, Herb Howe wrote: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > ... > There are lots of questions on the web about this problem but few simple > answers. If there is a known workable solution online, could someo

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the output of (as root): fdisk -l /dev/sda Also, what happens in /var/log/syslog when you insert the device? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Socio

Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:55, Max wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 09:34, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > I'm trying to read some usb memory. I can read it in windows. I can't > > read it with debian. > > > also > > root:/proc/scsi> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick > > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a vali

Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 14:55, Max wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 09:34, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > I'm trying to read some usb memory. I can read it in windows. I can't > > read it with debian. > > > also > > root:/proc/scsi> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick > > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a vali

Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Max
On Sunday 08 August 2004 09:34, Glenn Meehan wrote: > I'm trying to read some usb memory. I can read it in windows. I can't > read it with debian. > also > root:/proc/scsi> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > How do I mount the usb filesystem?

Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Fraser
I'd guess /proc/bus/usb, by that fstab entry. Cheers, Paul Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glenn Meehan wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:12, Fernando wrote: Hi. In debian sid with kernel 2.6.6 in fstab i use this: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 and it works perfect, try it ;). Where doe

Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:12, Fernando wrote: > Hi. In debian sid with kernel 2.6.6 in fstab i use this: > > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 > > and it works perfect, try it ;). Where does your file system get mounted? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:03, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:22:17 +1200, Simon Kitching > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this is not necessary, at least for basic functionality, > > with recent systems. Maybe someone read Jon's notes and built it in ;-). > > > > I'm

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:22:17 +1200, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure this is not necessary, at least for basic functionality, > with recent systems. Maybe someone read Jon's notes and built it in ;-). > > I'm using a 256MByte USB memory stick fine, with a debian testing

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:59, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:32:54 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > > Friday. > > > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? > > You need to use something called

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 08:43, jakob bratkovic wrote: > stan wrote: > > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > > Friday. > > > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? > > > > If I understand correctly you're talking about an USB drive. If this is > the case,

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:32:54 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > Friday. > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? You need to use something called hotplug and ensure that you have various SCSI modules built for

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread jakob bratkovic
stan wrote: I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, Friday. How can I use this with my Debian laptop? If I understand correctly you're talking about an USB drive. If this is the case, Linux will see it as an SCSI disk and probably assign it to /dev/sda1 if you other

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:32:54PM -0400, stan wrote: > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > Friday. > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? Plug it into the USB port. For more information, post your Debian version, what kind of memory stick, etc. -- Ca