Does anybody else have problems accessing USB flash disks etc? The problem is that some devices have bogus partition tables and so you end up with

/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4

instead of a single

/dev/sda

If I blank the device with dd and create a FS with mkdosfs then it works fine (except for a desktop icon, a bug in mkdesktophdicons).

I've a patch to scanpartitions that makes it work the way I think it should.