Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:33:35 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Sony Memory stick format funnies... |
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Rogier Wolff wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > > > > > > I doubt the kernel is seeing it without it being there (it doesn't have > > > > much imagination.) However, it may very well be there in a funny > > > > manner. You do realize, of course, that it's pretty much impossible for > > > > us to help you answer that question without a complete dump of the > > > > filesystem on hand, I hope? > > > > > > He gave what he thought was a complete dump of the non-null bytes. The > > > obvious answer is that he's looking wrong. :) > > > > > > > Hence the "complete" part... > > OK. > > The image of the disk (including partition table) is at: > > ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/misc_junk/formatted.img.gz > > It's 63kb and uncompresses to the 64Mb (almost) that it's sold as. >
And on at least this kernel (2.4.0) there is nothing funny about it:
: tazenda 13 ; ls -l /mnt total 0 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 23 2000 memstick.ind* : tazenda 14 ;
Mounting msdos, vfat or umsdos, no change.
-hpa
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