Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 172154
usbdrive not recognized if FC4 and cannot format
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:44:37 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 Description of problem: This may not be a bug. FC4 does not recognize usbdrive, so I cannot format it - but I can boot to windozeXP and it will ask me if I want to format to win32 - I said yes and it did. Then I booted to FC4 and it recognized the usbdrive. How can I elimated WindozeXP? WindozeXP can see a usbdrive and mount it unformatted. But FC4 cannot see the usbdrive unless it is formatted - but I cannot format it unless it is mounted? I almost threw my usb device away, but I kept it around hoping I did not understand something. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-13 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. usb device unformatted 2. FC4 will not mount usb, therefor cannot format 3. WindozeXP will mount and format, and then it works with FC4 Actual Results: Both WondozeXP and FC4 could view and use the usb drive Expected Results: Expected to be able to use, or format for use, an unformatted usb drive using FC4. Additional info: This is probably a request for enhancement - but I hope it is a bug - so I do not need WindozeXP to use an unformatted usb in FC4
I originally crated this problem by using mkfs to create different file systems on my usb device. It worked for a couple of different filesystems, but then I picked one either FC4 did not recognize or I created an unformatted usbdrive. This user error led to a problem that would have wasted my usb device, had I not used the WindozeXP solution.
you can still mkfs to a supported filesystem. You don't need to mount a file system to format it and in fact you shouldn't have a file system mounted when formatting it.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version.