Flash drives?

I recently received a nice little 64mb generic USB 2.0 flash drive. It
works fine in my WinXP, but I have problems.

First, my linux screws it up completely. As with my usb floppy drive,
it goes to a bunch of crazy /dev/sd0,1,2,3,4 junk. What is with this?
on another laptop, it works fine.

Second, less oriented towards you, my win98 and 98SE computers are not
supporting this at all. I plug it in, it asks for drivers, and it
doesn't work. I tried sever online drivers, and none worked. Any ideas?

Thanks,
poly-poly man

Poly-poly Man wrote:[color=blue]
> I recently received a nice little 64mb generic USB 2.0 flash drive.[/color]
It[color=blue]
> works fine in my WinXP, but I have problems.
>
> First, my linux screws it up completely. As with my usb floppy drive,
> it goes to a bunch of crazy /dev/sd0,1,2,3,4 junk. What is with this?
> on another laptop, it works fine.[/color]

What do you mean by 'it goes to a bunch of crazy...', thats how linux
works. You need to mount to one of those devices to a directory, e.g.
as root make a directory in /mnt/ called flash then mount /dev/sd0
/mount/flash (you might need to change sd0 until you find the right
one, e.g. sd1, sda0 sda1). Once you've figured this out add it to
/etc/fstab so you can mount it as a normal user.

--
Scott Bell
[url]http://www.scottbell.org/[/url]

Scott Bell wrote:[color=blue]
> Poly-poly Man wrote:[color=green]
> > I recently received a nice little 64mb generic USB 2.0 flash drive.[/color]
> It[color=green]
> > works fine in my WinXP, but I have problems.
> >
> > First, my linux screws it up completely. As with my usb floppy[/color][/color]
drive,[color=blue][color=green]
> > it goes to a bunch of crazy /dev/sd0,1,2,3,4 junk. What is with[/color][/color]
this?[color=blue][color=green]
> > on another laptop, it works fine.[/color]
>
> What do you mean by 'it goes to a bunch of crazy...', thats how linux
> works. You need to mount to one of those devices to a directory, e.g.
> as root make a directory in /mnt/ called flash then mount /dev/sd0
> /mount/flash (you might need to change sd0 until you find the right
> one, e.g. sd1, sda0 sda1). Once you've figured this out add it to
> /etc/fstab so you can mount it as a normal user.[/color]

The drive comes out as /mnt/flash, and as /dev/sd0. when I try to open
it though, it gives me an error about "incorrect superblocks". About
the crazy junk, I was referring to Knoppix, which mounts the flash
drive and my usb floppy as several /dev/sda's or sdb's. None of them,
under knoppix, work.

THanks,
poly-p man

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:58:50 -0800, Poly-poly Man wrote:

[color=blue]
> The drive comes out as /mnt/flash, and as /dev/sd0. when I try to open
> it though, it gives me an error about "incorrect superblocks". About
> the crazy junk, I was referring to Knoppix, which mounts the flash
> drive and my usb floppy as several /dev/sda's or sdb's. None of them,
> under knoppix, work.
>
> THanks,
> poly-p man[/color]

If you have not already done so, you might try making sure Linux knows the
flash drive has a fat or vfat filesystem. Do "man mount" for details on
the exact form of mount command to issue...