Re: [SLUG] usb thumbdrive AAARRGH

From: Scott PIper (piper@ij.net)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 21:59:12 EST


Mike Branda wrote:

>The thumb drive has stuff on it. It's formatted plain old fat according
>to XP Pro. It works fine in Windows and OS X. I can copy files to it
>and from it in both of the other OS es. I tried to mount it as /dev/sdb
>before I originally posted. No Dice.
>
>
>Mike
>
>

Those thumb drives are usually formatted for DOS machines.

Just out of curiosity, did you mount it as sdb1? You need the partition
on the drive.

scott
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