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#1 2009-09-20 04:18:45

MTsoul
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From: Vancouver, BC
Registered: 2008-08-14
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Phone SD card mounts to /dev/sdh (not /dev/sdh1)

I got a new Android phone (<3) the Samsung i7500. Its internal and external SD cards mount to /dev/sdh and /dev/sdi respectively. I found out with dmesg:

scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Samsung  SAMSUNG Android  Mass PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Samsung  SAMSUNG Android  Mass PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 8:0:0:1: [sdi] Attached SCSI removable disk
usb-storage: device scan complete

And fdisk doesn't list them. And these are actual partitions, not disks. I mounted them, and they have the stuff I'm looking for. Why is it like this? One bad thing about this is that fdisk -l doesn't list them, and I have to use dmesg to look at where they pop up each time. That's rather unnecessary IMO.

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#2 2009-09-20 04:20:31

iBertus
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From: Greenville, NC
Registered: 2004-11-04
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Re: Phone SD card mounts to /dev/sdh (not /dev/sdh1)

I suppose that the filesystem could have been written to the raw device and not to a partition. This is fine as long as you don't need multiple filesystems on one device (i.e. multiple partitions).

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#3 2009-09-20 07:38:52

MTsoul
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From: Vancouver, BC
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Re: Phone SD card mounts to /dev/sdh (not /dev/sdh1)

Cool thanks.

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#4 2009-09-20 07:48:42

tomk
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From: Ireland
Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: Phone SD card mounts to /dev/sdh (not /dev/sdh1)

Ny Nokia's card does that too - hasn't caused any problems.

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