Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262652AbTHUMev (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:34:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262655AbTHUMev (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:34:51 -0400 Received: from natsmtp01.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.81]:11253 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262652AbTHUMeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:34:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3F44BC9F.7030606@softhome.net> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:35:43 +0200 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maciej Soltysiak CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 29 Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > > Maybe a message of caution should be displayed in usb-storage > configure help about attemtping to change partitions and/or filesystems on > USB storage devices. > The stuff I have met with CompactFlash cards (*without* USB) - they by default were coming formated with single FAT12 partition - no partition table whatsoever. I had no problems with partitioning and formating (in IDE emulation mode). But Windoz2kOfBugs was refusing to work with flashes which had partition table, and was working Okay with /original/ FAT12 formated flashes. Windoz wasn't even trying to read partition table, always showing flash as one drive - and sure it was reporting stupid errors when you were trying to do something with partitioned flash. It looks like /agreement/ (with The Beast) that flashe/memory card has to have FAT12. No comments. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/