> I'm having continuing problems with my DSE XH 8181. Which is a television, soldering iron, ...?
> Altho it mounts auto > during boot, it shows contents to be zero. Any attempt to copy a file to > it results in a msg > " cp: cannot create regular file /mnt/usb/filename : no space left on > device". > > My command df shows /dev/sda1 zero % usage, 126912 available. > > The command /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda1 produces > "Cannot open /dev/sda1" If fdisk and/or dd can't read the USB storage device, your hardware and/or kernel are unable to transfer data to/from it properly. This can be caused by non-standard USB hardware requiring special drivers which are non-available for Linux, or non-availability of support for your particular USB device in the (older?) kernel you're using. Theoretically it's also possible that your system is misconfigured. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
