Phantom USB device!

[Peter King]

I'm trying to get a Samsung yepp 55V working with Linux (currently using
Debian Woody and an SMP 2.4.18 kernel). It shows up as /dev/sda, with
the FAT partition being sda1 (though fdisk complains that the boundaries
are in the wrong place). I can mount it no problem, the usb-storage
module loads as do the msdos and fat modules. I can then read it and...

Well, I can't quite "write to it". That is: I see an ordinary directory
listing; I can apparently copy files to it; I can delete files from it. 

But when I unplug the yepp, there the supposedly copied files aren't.

Curiously, I did succeed in deleting some files from the yepp. So Linux
knows it's there and can do at least *some* file manipulations. But not
write to it -- although Linux reports that the copy has been successful,
and duly notes the copied files in the yepp directory listing -- and it
even decrements the freespace left on the yepp appropriately.

What's wrong?

To add to the general air of teeth-gnashing: the yepp works fine
straight out of the box on my daughter's imac, running OS X 10.2. Copy
files, delete, whatever. No problem and worked without any fiddling
around. Now OS X is just a *nix of another color. What's gone wrong 
under Linux? (Or possibly: under Debian?)

Incidentally, whenever I plug in the yepp the device number keeps
getting incremented. This will lead to trouble eventually. I don't know
whether it's part of the trouble I'm having now.

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