4 GB USB memory arrived

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sat May 24 16:24:01 UTC 2008


Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     My older Kensington 2 Gb has a different problem. Fdisk looks like
>> this: karl at karl-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdf1
>>
>> Command (m for help): p
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdf1: 2063 MB, 2063581184 bytes
>> 64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 3968 * 512 = 2031616 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x73696420
>>
>> This doesn't look like a partition table
>> Probably you selected the wrong device.
>>     
>
> Didn't you try this some months ago in the same wrong way? The correct 
> disk name would be /dev/sdf not sdf1.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
    I may have. It is clearly /dev/sdf1 and if I try $ sudo umount 
/dev/sdf it says it is not loaded. With $sudo umount /dev/sdf1 it works. 
Do you have any idea why it is bad?

Karl


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