YES -- on that particular memory-stick, I had not other partitions. But I always told 'mount' to use sd0a.
" USB-3.0 and USB-2.0 are logically and physically separate systems that just share the same connector " SOOOOOO, how do I differentiate between the two? On the outside of my box, my USB-3.0 ports have a blue tongue inside; my USB-3.1 port has a red tongue; and the orginal ports (USB-1 ?) have a back tongue. Does it matter? Is it possible to tell the system to access port-x as a USB-3 or USB-2 port ? On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 5:46 PM Michael van Elst <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] (Todd Gruhn) writes: > > >HMMMMMMM. I stuck a memory stick in a USB-3.0 port connected to the > >motherboard. > > >I did: > > >mount /dev/sd0 /umass1 > > >it worked. But why didnt I need to specify partition 'a' ? > > /dev/sd0 is the same as /dev/sd0d (the raw partition on x86 platform). > > If that works then you probably don't have any partitioning at all > and both sd0d and sd0e represent the whole disk. > > > >If I stuck the stick in tha USB-3,0 port, why did it work? USB-3.0 > >configured as USB-2? > > USB-3.0 and USB-2.0 are logically and physically separate systems > that just share the same connector (one uses the pins on the lower > side, the other uses the pins on the upper side). For your host > adapter that's two separate ports, but usually only one is active. >
