On Wed January 17 2007 08:13, Rory Slegtenhorst wrote: > Joseph, > > Did you repartition it after you bought it? > > I have a USB drive which doesn't support to be partitioned... > Eg on Linux it's actually mounted on /dev/sda > I have another disk without this problem, and it mounts on > /dev/sda1...
My iRiver 895 player acts as a USB device after firmware upgrade to UMS-based version, but it also requires no partitions in order for the player to see the music/podcasts. Every couple of months I have to reformat it, because the podcasts start to become corrupted. My recipe for reformatting is: - Use "mount" to find which device is being assigned to the player, say /dev/sda. > su # umount /dev/sda # mkfs -V -t vfat -c -I /dev/sda The option -I (dash, capital i) is what forces the formatting of the entire disk without partitions. Reboot the device and everything is fine again. Carlos FL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
