Phantom USB device!

[Moniz Family]

Peter King wrote:

>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?
>
>  
>
Since you're mounting a vfat device, should you be setting umask=0?

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