On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:47:26PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The original 1-gig Zenstone MP3 players mount on Debian > just fine if one has vfat support so I expected it to be a > breeze to load a brand new 2-gig model, not the Zenstone Plus, > but the 2-gigabyte model that has the tiny speaker. > > Boy, was I wrong about the ease factor. > > There is some weird variant of the fat32 FS on this drive > and I haven't been able to mount it to save my soul. > > $ fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 2008 MB, 2008547328 bytes > 1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63273 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 63274 1961471+ b W95 FAT32 > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > It gets better. > > # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt > > "FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value" > > Nothing mounts. Game over. > > I did capture an image of the flash drive. > > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/image.bin bs=512 > > Doing the strings utility on the first few bytes of image.bin > yields > > NXP > )xV4 > ZEN STONE FAT32 > RRaA > rrAa > NXP > )xV4 > ZEN STONE FAT32 > RRaA > rrAa > ZEN STONE > RANSF~1RAT > > An older working Zenstone's beginning sectors look like > > MSWIN4.1 > FAT32 > RRaA > rrAa > MSWIN4.1 > FAT32 > RRaA > rrAa > ZEN Stone > > Is there any way to make this odd-ball fat32 mount? > > If that XP really means Windows XP and not just garbage that > strings picked up, then that may explain things a bit. > > Is there something I need to upgrade? > > I am running a 2.6.5 kernel with support for most of the > common Microsoft file systems but we are dead in the water on > this little project, so far. > > Thanks for any constructive ideas. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Try the following as root or sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
