Hi all,
I have just purchased the Vosonic X's-Drive 6230 (hate that
punctuation ;) under the promise of linux support...
Well, it "doesn't" work for me - there is one or two unhelpful lines of
text on their website that mention linux.
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:
$ sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/tmp/
mount: No medium found
There is no /dev/sda1, sda2, etc, as per my other usb storage drives
(only my internal hard drive shows):
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 58605120 hda
3 1 40131 hda1
3 2 10498477 hda2
3 3 104422 hda3
3 4 1 hda4
3 5 1060258 hda5
3 6 10594836 hda6
3 7 17157388 hda7
3 8 5783368 hda8
3 9 13366048 hda9
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: Model: VP6230 Rev: 1.07
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
fdisk doesn't work either:
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Password:
Unable to open /dev/sda
I heard some whispers of other vosonic owners - how did you get your
drive working? I have a plain IBM 20Gb in it at the moment, formatted
with the X's Drive itself.
The drive shows under windows, after the 3 card reader slots.
MTIA!
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]
-- Seneca
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