Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:16:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Maciej Soltysiak <> | Subject | Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?) |
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> P.P.S. The 'strange partition table' you saw probably wasn't a partition > table at all -- it was likely the start of a VFAT filesystem. I'm guessing > that if you had just mounted /dev/sda (notice no partition number!), it > would have worked. I almost killed my USB 128mb flash (it's an mp3 player also). I also noticed a strange partition and "fixed" it. And file transfers where ok (VFAT, formatted), but suddenly it stopped playing audio. When I redid the formatting as a plain DOS partition using fdisk command. o create a new empty DOS partition table
MP3 started playing right. It seems that many manufacturers rely on undocumented (yes, I haven't found any pointers about partition table format, etc.) nuances and settings. Like your USB BAR's starting sector's data, that seemed to be garbage.
Maybe a message of caution should be displayed in usb-storage configure help about attemtping to change partitions and/or filesystems on USB storage devices.
Regards, Maciej
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