Hi, finally I can use the "EasyDisk" USB stick with Linux. Thanks to all who made suggestions. This is how I (somewhat) fixed it: Once again I built a 2.4.22 kernel (from kernel.org; most of the time I had tried 2.4.19 before) with the USB driver and storage stuff compiled as modules and with the "probe multiple SCSI LUNs" option switched on. I had missed the latter the last time I compiled the kernel, but I don't know if this did the trick, though, as the 2.4.19 kernel didn't show any differences with or without the option activated.
After booting the new kernel and plugging in the USB stick hotplugging still would not operate correctly but at least I was able to have a look at the stick with fdisk. This time it displayed four partitions (sda1-4), obviously with garbage instead of sensible data for heads, cylinders and related information in the partition table. I deleted all the partitions and created a single one with partition type FAT 16. Then I did a mkdosfs on that partition, and bingo: After replugging the stick the hotplug mechanism created the appropriate /etc/fstab entry and finally the stick could be mounted and used. Yet I still can't figure out why I wasn't able to see the (original, garbled) partitions with the 2.4.19 kernel. And why the stick works with various flavours of Windows in spite of the garbage in the partition table. Oh well ... Cheers Matthias > ____________________________ > Matthias L�bberstedt > ppi Media GmbH > Hindenburgstra�e 49 > D-22297 Hamburg > phone +49 (0) 40-22 74 33-627 > fax +49 (0) 40-22 74 33-666 > email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web www.ppi.de > Computers are like air conditions. They stop working properly when you open Windows. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
