On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:12:38 -0500, Sam Williams wrote
I have been having difficult with usb thumb style drives and FC1 /
FC2 for a long time. I have scoured the web for reports of similar problems
and solutions. While I found quite a number of problem reports there
were no solutions. In fact, to the contrary, people seemed to abandon
the search.
Recently I purchased a Lexar JumpDrive (128 mbytes), which replaced the
256 Mbytes Sandisk MiniCruiser that I just knew was bad. Well, it worked
great and I didn't give it a second thought.... My wife, kind soul that
she is, went out and bought me the 256 Mbyte Lexar Jumpdrive. I was
excited. I had another jumpdrive with twice the capacity.... I was
shocked when I plugged it into my system and had the exact problem I
had seen with the MiniCruiser. The problem scenario looks like a defective
device. The system tries multiple-times to mount it, then ultimately
comes up with some timeout messages and a message that says that the
fat filesystem is unreadable!!!
After many days I have found the source of the problem. If I have
gpilotd ( version 2.0.10) running on my system I can mount and use
128Mbyte jumpdrives and lower, but it will not allow me to use anything
of higher capacity then this. If I kill or pause the gpilotd, EVERYTHING
works just fine!!! I can use both of my 256 Mbyte usb drives as well
as all the lower capacity ones that I now own....
Gpilotd has some real problems. It is somehow getting in the way of
my use of the jump drives, and it will not allow an easy hot-sync
with my Sony Clie. I have to try multiple times. Sometimes I have to
try and then recycle the gpilotd, before I can get a successful
sync. There is a real problem with this daemon.... Sadly, I think
I'm the only person that has seen this relationship..
Anyway, for all of you that have been having these types of usbdrive
problems I would suggest you make sure and try it without gpilotd
running in the mix....
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Sam Williams samurai(a)acm.org
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I've had simlar problems with an Apacer HT202 (1GB). I've noticed that the
format on these devices are not of the standard configuration. As it would not
mount on my system either. However, it had some instructions in the manual to
reconfigure the drive. And now it works perfectly. I'm not familar with your
device, but if you goto this site (below), and download the manual. It has the
instructions there on how to reformat it, so you can mount it properly in Linux.
http://www.apacer.com/apacer_english/product_html/handy_steno_ht202.asp
Hope this helps.
Wolf
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