[YLUG] USB stick weirdness

[Paul Wardman]

Yeah, I got the data off it as soon as things started going squiffy. Still,
it's a pain!

On 11/03/2008, Nicholas Thomas <nick at lupine.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Paul Wardman wrote:
> > Aha, thanks for that. However, my SATA harddisk also shows up as
> > /dev/sdaxx, so presumably the USB stick would be a sda bigger than that.
> >
> > I've not tried formatting it yet, as my windows 'puter is acting
> > weirdly too (damn I'm having the worst luck with PCs these days) --- I
> > think the PSU is on the way out --- but I'll give it a go next I can.
> > I'll attempt other sticks when I can, but this is on three different
> > machines, one of which, as I said, is the windows machine that can
> > read it (semi-) ok.
> >
> > Paul
>
> If you have one SATA drive in your PC (sdax), then future drives will be
> sdbx, sdcx, etc. The scheme is "drive letter", partition number.
>
> Good luck with it, anyways - USB sticks are stupidly cheap these days,
> so it's not a huge issue if it is broken. As long as you get your data
> off it well in advance! :)
>
>
> /Nick
>
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