hmmm i never heard of those tools, and they are not on my system. what
package are sg_scan and sginfo in?

(you can see by going:

whereis sg_scan - that will give you the full path to sg_scan, something
like /usr/sbin/sg_scan

then rpm -qf /usr/bin/sg_scan

alternatively rpm -qf $(which sg_scan) is shorter)


fdisk -l should work as root, but not sure if it extends by default to
scsi drives?


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:37:16 +1200
Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Doh! You're right about /dev/sda, but it didn't help. msdos filesystem 
> didn't work either. Of course, I can't mount the shared fat partition 
> either.
> 
> Here's what the scsi system has to say:
> 
> $ sudo sg_scan -i
> /dev/sg0: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]  type=0
>     USB       Flash Drive       1.12 [wide=0 sync=0 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
> 
> $ sudo sginfo -l
> /dev/sda
> /dev/sg0 [=/dev/sda  scsi1 ch=0 id=0 lun=0]
> 
> Can you remind me what the command is to see all your partitions, and 
> the types that the system thinks they are? I thought it was fdisk -l, 
> but that returned silence.
> 
> 
> Nick Rout wrote:
> > usb sticks are often formatted msdos, not vfat, try -t msdos.
> > 
> > also  somethimes they are not partitioned in the normal way, and the
> > filesystem may be on /dev/sda not /dev/sda1
> > 
> > keep fiddling. 
> > 
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:56:21 +1200
> > Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I can't mount any FAT partitions - neither my shared FAT partition nor 
> >>my USB flash-drive:
> >>
> >>$sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 usb
> >>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
> >>        or too many mounted file systems
> >>
> >>This install just doesn't seem to know anything about fat. Is there some 
> >>module that I need?
> >>
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