Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:13:43 -0500 | From | Thomas Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage |
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Matthew Dharm wrote: > The device may not actually have the beginning few sectors. Use skip= to > try to read something from the middle of the media.
Give that a go Mark.
Try a few values like 25, 50, 75, and 100. with bs=1k and unset (default 512 byte).
> Yes, I actually have seen this before. The firmware 'fakes' a partition > table on the first attempt to read one, but sector 0 really isn't there.
Am I glad I have a CF camera:) What kind of junk is SmartMedia, missing sectors? Ugh!
-Thomas
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