no USB jump/flash drive support yet

[Fulko.Hew at sita.aero]

Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov>@redhat.com on 09/17/2004
03:40:39 PM replied:


> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 14:47 -0400, Fulko.Hew at sita.aero wrote:
> >
> > "Noah Silva [Mailing list]" <nsilva-list at aoi.atari-source.com>
@redhat.com
> > on 09/17/2004 02:18:00 PM said:
> >
> >
> > > The DRIVE should show up as /dev/sda, the data partition should
usually
> > be
> > > /dev/sda1.  Unfortunately my [sony] memory stick seems not to work
under
> > > FC2 at least, but it doesn't cause hanging problems, it just doesn't
work
> > > at all.
> >
> > It may be due to the fact that FC2 added ACPI support and your machine
> > has a buggy ACPI BIOS (like mine did).  All my USB stuff stopped
working
> > when I switched to FC2.
> >
> > Go back throught the archives and look for USB and ACPI for _my_
problem
> > and solution.
>
> Memorex thumb drive worked for me ("giant floppy mode" /dev/sda or /dev/
> sdb - depending...) as well as external an USB hard drive (/dev/sda1
> or /dev/sdb1) on FC1, FC2, and FC3T1 (until an attempted update killed
> the machine - another story), but only booting with noacpi.

I suppose I could have tried 'noacpi',
but I got everything to work (eventually) with ACPI still on.
As I said... go back and look at my messages... it may help you.