USB Storage: cruzer mini 256 Mb

[John Fleming]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 15:59, Christian Bruccoleri wrote:
> I have this Cruzer Mini 256 MB usb 2.0 external driver, and it worked 
> fine with RedHat 9.0.
> 
> Updating to Fedora Core 1, it stopped working.
> When I try to mount it hangs or I get the annoying message that 
> /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device.

In /etc/updfstab.conf.default, I added the follwing to the flash
section:

match hd "Generic STORAGE DEVICE"

Then using the GUI disk manager, I mounted the sda device, and it showed
on the desktop and worked as expected.

Regarding an earlier post of mine, this thing DOES have a history of
becoming hopelessly stuck in various machines.  Sandisk will send a tool
that helps take it out.  I got mine out with brute force (Much brute
force) and it still works.  Others have shattered their trying to get it
out.  I'm not sure my USB socket is the same, but it does still work. 
BEWARE the Sandisk Mini Cruzer 256 - get a later model.

- John