On Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:19 AM +0900 Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On 水, 2004-06-02 at 17:03 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I'm having trouble getting a Sony Micro Vault 512MB USB memory
> > > device to work with Linux. It works ok in Windows, so I know the
> > > hardware is ok.
> [snip]
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this? Thanks.
> >
> > Maybe you need to mount /dev/sda, not /dev/sda4.
>
> Wow. That worked. Never heard of mounting the whole device instead of a
> partition. Live and learn.
In some circles, sometimes referred to as "Super Floppy Format" I believe.
There is no MBR/partition table in block 0 as you would usually find on a
hard disk. Instead, the whole device is assumed to be one partition, so
block 0 is the first block of the partition. This is just like a floppy
diskette, where block 0 would contain a BPB that describes the format of the
FAT file system on the device. This "Super Floppy Format" is often seen on
MO media too.
Hope I got that right/Hope this helps,
jimb.
Jim Blackson
Y-E Data, Inc.
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