On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Boris Dinkevich wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It seems like removable usb devices in windows get formatted without a > partition table
That's not true. In general they do have partition tables. > (I can't even create partitions on removable devices). > > Problem is, Linux seems to expect a partition table, and just reads garbage > of windows formatted media.. Linux expects a partition table but can work okay without one. > Is it me doing something wrong ? I don't know. Exactly what are you doing? > PS. FileStorage Gadget in linux, when operating as removable, does not give > sense MEDIA_CHANGED (0x28) > but rather just returns no sense to indicate that there is medium in > device. That's not true either. After you change the medium by writing to the attribute file, the gadget returns Sense Key = 0x06, ASC = 0x28, ASCQ = 0x00 to the next command. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
