mounting a usb thumb drive

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 20:05 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> >> Under Win2k, it mounted its harddisk partition and I saw 128M of disk
> >> Under Linux, however, mount /dev/sdb gave me the floppy drive, which is
> >> readonly.
> > Yup, plug it in and read the messages that the USB drivers put there and mount 
> > the correct drive...
> 
> problem solved. I revealed the /var/log/messages and found that the USB 
> DIsk Pro were detected as 2 SCSI devices. /dev/sda1 is the harddisk 
> partition while /dev/sdb is the floppy drive. Thank all of you.

I'm confused. You are saying that it both does have partitions (is a
hard disk) and is a floppy (does not have partitions)? I really think it
is an either/or and not a both. ALL disks are accessible as /dev/sdb
(adjust name accordingly). That is the whole disk. There is nothing (I
think) to keep you from mounting any hard disk without a partition, and
formatting it and using it. At least if it is not the disk you will boot
from. Is this not the case?

So, how did you wind up mounting it? And, what was the output from

		fdisk -l /dev/sdb

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>