Return of the Phantom USB Device...

[Peter King]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:15:51PM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:

> Where was it partitioned and formatted?  If the answer is OS X, you may need
> to have support for BSD partitions compiled into your kernel.  If it came
> with a Windows formatting utility, it won't probably won't hurt to reformat.

It was partitioned at the factory, presumably by Samsung. I've now
checked it with dosfsck, and found that there are mysterious "hidden
sectors" on it, and I'll just bet that if I redo it under Linux --
perhaps even under Windows -- those hidden sectors will be a real
problem. I think I'll cave in. No netsearch turns up anything on the
subject, so either nobody else has a problem or Linux users are staying
away from this device.

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