Re: Share usb disk drive with windows

2006-03-26 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sun, March 26, 2006 14:32, Daniel Garcia said: > Hi, > > I have bought a 200Gb usb disk drive, in order to share information > between windowsXP and linux. I have formated it with FAT32 with linux > because with windows it is not possible. > > Does anybody used a so big

Share usb disk drive with windows

2006-03-26 Thread Daniel Garcia
Hi, I have bought a 200Gb usb disk drive, in order to share information between windowsXP and linux. I have formated it with FAT32 with linux because with windows it is not possible. Does anybody used a so big FAT32 disk partition, will it be slower, is it risky to use a so big disk partition

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:15:42PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > Try modprobe sd-mod (scsi disk support). > > Yep! That solves the problem. > > It mounts vfat with only a Recycled directory and in that directory > some odd loo

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-22 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:15:42PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Try modprobe sd-mod (scsi disk support). Yep! That solves the problem. It mounts vfat with only a Recycled directory and in that directory some odd looking files: bumby:/mnt/Recycled# ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]Åÿì{Á??8.üxd [EMAIL

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:33:13PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from > what the owner tells me and has data on it). > > I'm running kernel 2.6.6. > > When I plug it in I see this in syslog: > > Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel J. Bodony
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:50:06 +0200, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: >> Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" >> to quit. > > I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to > the

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:45:21PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" > > to quit. > > I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:50:40PM +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > I have to do this on my Sarge install with kernel 2.4: > modprobe usb-storage > mount /proc/bus/usb > before the "mount -t vfat /dev/sda ..." works. That's allready done: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount | grep usb usbfs on /proc/b

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:33, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from > what the owner tells me and has data on it). > > I'm running kernel 2.6.6. > > When I plug it in I see this in syslog: > > Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2: new full sp

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" > to quit. I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to the prompt. Which made me wonder if the device was being bound to /dev

RE: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
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USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from what the owner tells me and has data on it). I'm running kernel 2.6.6. When I plug it in I see this in syslog: Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Jul 21 17:18:51 bumby kernel: SCSI