ropers wrote: > 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
In addition to those very valid points, if you "repartitioned" it with Windows, you almost certainly ended up with the Windows partition at the beginning of the disk, and very probably as the first MBR partition, because that's how Windows does flash devices. Windows can't handle a Windows partition that is not first on a flash disk, so it wouldn't surprise me if the stripped-way-down-non-OS on an MP3 player would have even more significant limitations. Still, a cool thing to do. :) Nick.
