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Donn Washburn | 1 Aug 2004 22:24
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JumpDrive 128M drive

Hey Group;

I have setup some other USB drives before and have ad good luck with 
mounting them.  I found one for $19.00 yesterday and it is giving me an 
error - "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".  It is seen by 
that other OS and shows that it is formatted with a FAT32 file system.
"lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.

Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media 
JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.

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Bill Eastman | 1 Aug 2004 22:32
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

I assume you are running SUSE.

Mine never worked with WUSE 8.1 and I haven't installed the latest yet.  
It didn't work on Fedora Core 1, but it did work with Knoppix, so I 
copied the usb files from the Knoppix CD to the HD that had Fedora Core 
1 on it and it worked.

Have you tried using it with Knoppix?

Donn Washburn wrote:

> Hey Group;
>
> I have setup some other USB drives before and have ad good luck with 
> mounting them.  I found one for $19.00 yesterday and it is giving me 
> an error - "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".  It is seen 
> by that other OS and shows that it is formatted with a FAT32 file system.
> "lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media 
> JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.
>

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John Dierdorf | 1 Aug 2004 23:38
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

On Sunday 01 August 2004 15:24, Donn Washburn wrote:
> Hey Group;
>
> I have setup some other USB drives before and have ad good luck with
> mounting them.  I found one for $19.00 yesterday and it is giving me an
> error - "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".  It is seen by
> that other OS and shows that it is formatted with a FAT32 file system.
> "lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media
> JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.

fdisk it and then format as a single partition.  As received, most thumb 
drives are not usable under Linux because of a weird partitioning scheme that 
permits "locking" the drive.  DO NOT believe the "formatted with FAT32" 
message.

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Donn Washburn | 2 Aug 2004 02:25
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

Bill Eastman wrote:
> I assume you are running SUSE.
> 
> Mine never worked with WUSE 8.1 and I haven't installed the latest yet.  
> It didn't work on Fedora Core 1, but it did work with Knoppix, so I 
> copied the usb files from the Knoppix CD to the HD that had Fedora Core 
> 1 on it and it worked.
> 
> Have you tried using it with Knoppix?
> 
> Donn Washburn wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey Group;
>>
>>I have setup some other USB drives before and have ad good luck with 
>>mounting them.  I found one for $19.00 yesterday and it is giving me 
>>an error - "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".  It is seen 
>>by that other OS and shows that it is formatted with a FAT32 file system.
>>"lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media 
>>JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.
>>
Well Bill - Get Core 2 and the 2.6 kernel and it does work.

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Donn Washburn | 2 Aug 2004 02:33
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

John Dierdorf wrote:
> On Sunday 01 August 2004 15:24, Donn Washburn wrote:
> 
>>Hey Group;
>>
>>I have setup some other USB drives before and have ad good luck with
>>mounting them.  I found one for $19.00 yesterday and it is giving me an
>>error - "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".  It is seen by
>>that other OS and shows that it is formatted with a FAT32 file system.
>>"lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media
>>JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.
> 
> 
> fdisk it and then format as a single partition.  As received, most thumb 
> drives are not usable under Linux because of a weird partitioning scheme that 
> permits "locking" the drive.  DO NOT believe the "formatted with FAT32" 
> message.
> 
Thanks John;

However, fdisk /dev/sda failed also.  I formatted it in Winblow XP and 
Fedora at least works.  SuSE fails even with a 2.6 kernel

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Jay P. Suttiruttana | 2 Aug 2004 06:32
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

> Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media
> JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.

First... let see if your Linux box even recognize your Jumpdrive. Note: you'll 
most likely have to be root user to do most of stuffs here, unless you set 
your account to root privilege.

> "lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.
Since you mentioned that you did /sbin/lsusb and saw your jumpdrive, you can 
skip to step 3. But it's good to run through 1 and 2 just to be sure. ;o)

1. Check your /etc/fstab file and see if this line or something similar exist

none    /proc    proc    defaults   0  0

If not, you should add this line and do a mount -a

2. Plug in your Lexar USB Jumpdrive, wait a few second, and type the following 
command;

more /proc/bus/usb/devices

You should see something similar to this:

S:  Manufacturer=LEXAR MEDIA
S:  Product=JUMPDRIVE
S:  SerialNumber=D419212331100
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 90mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
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Jay P. Suttiruttana | 2 Aug 2004 06:37
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

My apology. Error correction (change from deb to dev). That damm keyboard [v] 
and [b] sitting next to each other... 

To mount your USB Jumpdrive type

--> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/jumpdrive

NOT --> mount -t vfat /deb/sdb1 /mnt/jumpdrive

Jay :o)
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Jim Parkhurst | 2 Aug 2004 14:58
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Re: JumpDrive 128M drive

Not sure what distro you are running. I have a Dell Latitude that with
SUSE9.0 read my LEXAR drives without problem. When I upgraded to
SUSE9.1, the LEXAR drives were now being mounted as file folder type
(/media/usb-storage...). I have not checked if VFAT is installed. I did
update my kernel to 2.6.5... via SUSE.DE, but the problem continues. In
my post of the same problem earlier, it was suggested that kernel 2.6.7+
would fix the problem. I have not gotten there - yet.  I did find some
related complaints googling for "suse 9.1 usb lexar" and indications of
fixes.

-Jim

>>> n5xwb@... 08/01/2004 15:24 >>>
Hey Group;

I have setup some other USB drives before and have ad good luck with 
mounting them.  I found one for $19.00 yesterday and it is giving me an

error - "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".  It is seen by

that other OS and shows that it is formatted with a FAT32 file system.
"lsusb" and "hwinfo" do see it.

Anyone have any ideas or experience with one of these Lexar Media 
JumpDrives / 128Meg.  I am running kernel 2.4.26.

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Jim Parkhurst | 2 Aug 2004 15:39
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Fwd: MDKSA-2004:076 - Updated sox packages fix buffer overflows with malicious .wav files


>>> Mandrake Linux Security Team <security@...>
07/28/2004 18:13 >>>
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                 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory

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 Package name:           sox
 Advisory ID:            MDKSA-2004:076
 Date:                   July 28th, 2004

 Affected versions:	 10.0, 9.1, 9.2, Corporate Server 2.1

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 Problem Description:

 Ulf Harnhammar discovered two buffer overflows in SoX. They occur 
 when the sox or play commands handle malicious .WAV files.

 Versions 12.17.4, 12.17.3 and 12.17.2 are vulnerable to these
 overflows. 12.17.1, 12.17 and 12.16 are some versions that are not.

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Jim Parkhurst | 2 Aug 2004 15:40
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Fwd: MDKSA-2004:072 - Updated postgresql packages fix buffer overflow in odbc driver


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                 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory

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 Package name:           postgresql
 Advisory ID:            MDKSA-2004:072
 Date:                   July 27th, 2004

 Affected versions:	 Corporate Server 2.1

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 Problem Description:

 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the ODBC driver of
PostgreSQL.
 It is possible to exploit this problem and crash the surrounding
 application. Hence, a PHP script using php4-odbc can be utilised to
 crash the surrounding  Apache webserver. Other parts of postgresql
are
 not affected.
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