On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:46, Robert Barbour wrote: > The memory stick is easily read by a dell laptop and the files copied etc. > (The files in question were written to the stick by an apple laptop.) > OK - so the device seems to be working properly.
> Suse machine is now putting another icon up 'floppy' - i don't know what > produced this, as the floppy drive on the machine has never been used. > I've never delved much into the workings but the hotlug system is coordinated by udev - see /usr/share/doc/packages/udev. You should have files in /dev/.udevdb named [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED]@sda1 (don't edit these yourself). To find out a bit more about the udev package try: rpm -q -l udev | less This lists the files in the package including the documentation. > When I click to open it, ..dev/sda comes up in the location box, then a > popup window says the process has died! > > I get the same result whether or not the memory stick is in the USB port, > but no light or action on the floppy drive, even with a disk in it! > The label 'floppy' seems to be coincidental - the 'process has died' message is obviously not expected. HTH C. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
