Ignore the partitions. I'ts a cosmetic artifact that can't be made to
disappear.
Get the latest CVS code for write support.
Matt
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0400, Robert A Crawford wrote:
> After hearing about a problem with the VIA USB chipset,
> and noticing that my machine has a very old version of the VIA USB,
> I decided to take a different approach.
>
> I bought a USB expansion card and gave it a try.
>
> That _almost_ worked. The Wallet mounts, is readable, and I've
> even been able to copy the ddna.exe file off of it to a Windows machine
> and run it.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't mount it writable.
>
> It's pretty clear from the logs that the write-protect
> test failed, but what's weird is that the driver claims there
> are four partitions on the Wallet. There are not. In fact, the
> only mountable partition's the "full device", /dev/sda.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get this to be writable and what the
> "extra" partitions mean?
>
>
>
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: Vendor: MINDS@WK Model: DIGITAL WALLET Rev:
>
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI
>SCSI revision: 02
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel
>0, id 0, lun 0
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: SCSI device sda: 11700353 512-byte hdwr sectors
>(5991 MB)
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: sda:<7>usb-storage: queuecommand() called
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
> Apr 8 19:31:10 kloognome kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
>
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