[SOLVED] memory stick - mount prob

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, I wrote:

> Xairetw allhlous apo thn hliolousth California! Prwta, eyxes: Kala
> Xristougenna + kalh xronia se olous, ei8e to linux na katakthsei ton kosmo
> ktl.
>
> H aporia mou: Giati w giati den mporw na diabasw 64aria memory sticks.
>
> Background: Agorazw mia pshfiakh camera Sony DSC-P31, h opoia exei ena
> memory stick 8MB. Otan gemisei me fwtografies, syndeeis thn camera me to
> laptop sou mesw tou USB port kai "blepeis" to memory stick san enan mikro
> disko (/dev/sda1), me vfat filesystem, to opoio kaneis mount rw xwris
> kanena problhma.
>
> Otan omws agorasa ena deytero stick me 64MB, h katastrofh xtyphse - den
> mporw na to kanw mount me tipota. To mynhma pou blepw sto
> /var/log/messages einai:
>
> kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01
>
> To mount dinei to klassiko mhnyma wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on /dev/sda1 or too many mounted filesystems.
>
> O monos tropos pou mporw na grapsw sto megalo mem stick einai na kanw mkfs
> apo linux (vfat), kai meta kanw mount, read, write, ola kala. Alla molis
> paw na xrhsimopoihsw thn camera, frikarei epeidh den mporei na diabasei to
> stick.
>
> Dokimasa kai alla sticks, tipotis. To idio problhma. Epishs apo win+mac ta
> diabazw kanonika. Help!
>

Okeik, th brhkame thn akrh. To problhma einai oti to fat filesystem pou
ftiaxnei h Sony sto stick den einai akribws akeraio - den kserw ti
eksypnades kanoun, alla molis eftiaksa ena primary partition me to fdisk
sto mem stick, ola doulepsan apsoga. Mallon kapoia metadata tou styl
superblock leipan.

-A