On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Harry Bobbaers wrote:

> Quoting Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 
>  
> > Didn't you say that the stick was still working under Windows?  Just 
> > plug  
> > it into a computer running Windows and copy everything off it. 
>  
> as i said: it works in windows, BUT it only sees the files that were 
> on there originally, not the added data. and it's THAT data that is 
> crucial... in windows you never know what's going on, so that's why i 
> want to try linux ;) (i don't know a lot of windows anymore) 

The patch below will cause the SCSI disk driver to bind to CD drives.  
Do "modprobe sd_mod" before plugging in the stick and see what happens.

Alan Stern


Index: usb-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ static int sd_probe(struct device *dev)
        int error;
 
        error = -ENODEV;
-       if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK && sdp->type != TYPE_MOD && sdp->type != 
TYPE_RBC)
+       if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK && sdp->type != TYPE_MOD && sdp->type != 
TYPE_RBC && sdp->type != TYPE_ROM && sdp->type != TYPE_WORM)
                goto out;
 
        SCSI_LOG_HLQUEUE(3, printk("sd_attach: scsi device: <%d,%d,%d,%d>\n", 



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