Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:11:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: It appears the final solution is: 1) CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y 2) linux-2.6.15-rc5 I have a multi-card reader that works find with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y and older kernel versions. -- Neil Bothwick Employ teenagers - while they

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:51 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:11:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: It appears the final solution is: 1) CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y 2) linux-2.6.15-rc5 I have a multi-card reader that works find with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y and older kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:57:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: What does tail-f /var/log/messages show while you plug in the device? Dec 12 23:15:25 orpheus usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 5 Dec 12 23:15:54 orpheus usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Dec 12

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 08:48 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:57:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: What does tail-f /var/log/messages show while you plug in the device? [snip] Only one device is detected, despite there being four. Did you say the HD shows up after

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 06:41 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: Now I see /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and /dev/sdd, which holds the harddrive partitions! Just a hint: These device names may change depending on the order you plug in your (USB) devices (i.e. when you plug in a USB stick

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:44:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it is not partitioned. thats what I presumed, but 1) I can't `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp`; and 2) in windows I see 4 drives (3 card reader slots, and the internal hd), not one -

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/12/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:44:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it is not partitioned. thats what I presumed, but 1) I can't `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp`; and 2) in windows I see 4 drives

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:43 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/12/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:44:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it is not partitioned. thats what I presumed, but 1) I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:25:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: All I've found so far, is something mentioning the superfloppy format (what's that?). Supposedly I can `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp` (note the sda, not sdax) but this doesn't work: This just means the filesystem is on the whole disk, it

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2005 07:55 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: dmesg reports usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 7 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor:

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, thanks for your help, On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:12 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:25:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: All I've found so far, is something mentioning the superfloppy format (what's that?). Supposedly I can `mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp` (note the sda, not

Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

2005-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2005 07:55 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: Unable to open /dev/sda Do you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m (aka SCSI Disk support) in your kernel config? yep, actually its its CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y thanks, -- Iain