2009/5/17 Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz>: > Scenario: 4.5 installed on Emtec 2GB-FM mp3 player, using 1G of the > 2G, the rest being 1G of FAT (a separate fdisk partition, labeled as sd0i). > Everyting works BSD-wise, provided the machine I plug it in can boot off USB > at all. Now, I still want to be able to use it as a mp3 player. > > I created newfs_msdos on sd0i, can copy files back and forth. > But when I turn the mp3 player on then, it says 'no song found'. > (The FM player works.) > > After I (put my quarantine gloves on and) plugged the player into > a windows machine and repartitioned the 1g partition with win's > 'format', and copied some mp3's, the player _can_ see them and play > them. If I newfs_msdos the partition again, the player cannot read it again. > > That makes me ask: is there something newfs_msdos doesn't that win > FAT 'format' does that could be relevant to this? Did someone experience > the same?
This may be stating the obvious, but I presume you're aware that all FAT filesystems are not alike? newfs_msdos can create FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32 partitions. What kind of FAT partition did you create with Windows, and did you create the same kind with newfs_msdos? regards, --ropers
