Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes wrote these words on 06/04/06 13:33 CST: > I got a little problem here, my system detects any usb mass-storage but > my > S600 Sony Cybershot. It apears as a usb device but the system does not show > any sda or sdb or whatever. Is there something i miss? Usb storage is > compiled at kernel and all other mass-storage such pen-drives works.
I ran into the same exact problem just last month. I got a Patriot Memory usb disk (for free, thanks Fry's) and couldn't read it in Linux, but Windows read it just fine. Turns out this particular disk ships with two partitions on it, neither of which Linux could see. One partition has some special locking software that you can use to lock the drive requiring you to enter a password before you can access the data. Worked great in Windows, sucked hind tit in Linux. So, some research on the Patriot web site showed they had a program you could download which allows you to remove the existing partitions and create a single partition without the locking software. Fortunately, because this program only ran on the Windows98 platform, which I still have one running on one box, I was able to create a single partition which then, Linux could access perfectly. So, moral of the story is: see if this Sony's partition table is "normal", or at least similar to the disks that work for you. And if there is no data you care about on it, smoke the existing partition with whatever OS will do it, recreate it, then format the drive. It may work then. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 13:31:00 up 23 days, 5:31, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.06 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
