[SOLVED] Pen Drive Partitioning and Detection Problem

vermaden · Last edited by vermaden on Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:35 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi there everyone.

I have a big problem with Kingston Data Traveler 2 Plus 512MB Pen Drive.

When i attached it it was succesfully detectec but i was unable to mount it.

when i tried like that:
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
it told me: device not configured OR device busy

so i deleted the main partition on this Pen Drive and created new one with type fat and i still was unable to mount it.

i deleted the partition again and created a new one in Winsh!t XP with FAT type and later with FAT32 type but...

when i created these partitions on Winsh!t XP Pen Drive is no more detectable under linux ;/

no kernel messages, dmesg|grep mass gives nothing

it only works fine wunder this sh!t Winslows XP

I want to make this Pen Drive to be detectable and mountable under linux but i dont know how ;(.

i'm searching for winslows partition software to delete this partition on Pen Drive but i even cant find any good software which would be able to delete this partition. the built in disk management from Winslows XP is not able to delete it.

HELP people.

i run out of ideas how to make this work ;(

meranto · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject:

can you unplug your usb-key, replug it and post the last output of "dmesg"

are you sure you have kernel support for usb-storage enabled, modular or built in?
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vermaden · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

i was trying it even on knoppix 4 which has usb pen drive support

when i unplug and plug again the pen drive dmesg gives nothing (like i was never attaching it) :(

plastikman187 · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 233

Can you see the disk in cfdisk?

plug it in and try doing a

vermaden · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

Pen Drive IS NOT DETECTABLE so there is not any sda OR sda1 device under /dev dir so i cant use cfdisk to partition it

meranto · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject:

can you post your "lsmod" output, together with the USB-part + SCSI-emulation-part of your kernel config file?
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vermaden · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:55 am Post subject:

there was some software with the pen drive, i reformated it again with this software but it didnt helped.

i deleted the existing partition from the Pen Drive with Paragon Partition Manager 7.0. since there is no partition there it is fully detectable under knoppix by kernel but... i do not know which type of FAT create there to made it accesable from winslows XP and Linux.

hope u can help me...

if u want to get Paragon Partition Manager 7.0 here's link to TORRENT: http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=5432748

meranto

vermaden · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject:

after i deleted the partition from this Pen Drive it is fully detectable (by dmesg / lsusb and so) but i dont know which type of FAT partition to create there.

I tried to created PRIMARY FAT16 (>32mb type) [TYPE 06] and i was unable to mount it (device busy / device not configured when trying to mount -t vfat ...

I also tried PRIMARY FAT32 LBA [TYPE 0C] but that didnt helped too...

meranto · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:46 am Post subject:

vermaden · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject:

I have found sollution...

I Created FAT16 [TYPE 06] type partition on this Pen Drive and then i made:

mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1

that SOLVED all problems, i am now fully able to mount and use it on linux or *bsd.

There was a little problem on Winsh!t XP when i attached Pen it was detected as usual but no new disk appeared in My Computer, sollution for this is quite simple - go to computer management tools in start menu (can be enabled by menu start options) OR run start - run... - mmc and add aplet for disk management here, then go to disk management, find Pen Drive and allocate some letter (P: for purpose) to your Pen Drive, from this moment every time you attach this Pen Drive it will be accesable through P: letter from My Computer.

thank you for your help and time.