The kernel finding the disk in question and the android platform
finding/identifying/reporting it are two totally different things.

On Dec 15, 1:31 am, nysofmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a cfgmgr/ lscfg kind of command to search for hardware? What
> about dmesg (pipe) grep mem etc if its linux based? Wouldn't it not
> find the disk in question??
>
> On Dec 15, 12:50 am, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 14, 1:27 pm, Aaron Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >     ln -s /udisk /sdcard
>
> > > Should work ?
>
> > It's worth a try, if /sdcard is where apps are expecting to find
> > storage or are being told they can find it.
>
> > This won't necessarily insure the permissions for writing to it are
> > enforced.  And what type of filesystem is /udisk?  (try the mount
> > command from a shell without arguments)  If it's a unix one, you may
> > find things that are supposed to be shared are instead restricted to
> > the app that created them - external storage is normally a fat
> > filesystem that doesn't support file permissions, and who knows that
> > the defaults are that would apply if a filesystem that does support
> > permissions is quietly substituted.
>
>

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