Re: flash device detected with 2KB sectors
Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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Am Dienstag 28 August 2007 schrieb Alan Cox: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:06:09 -0400 (EDT) > Alan Stern <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've got a flash drive which is detected with sectors of 2048 byte. > > > > There's not much we can do about the sector size. It comes directly > > from the device. > > > > > Vfat rejects it. > > > > Does vfat assume 512-byte sectors? Complain to the maintainers. In > > the meantime, put a different filesystem on the drive. :-) > > Our FAT fs should handle 2K sector sizes. If not that is a but that will > need fixing. It used to work long ago with magneto opticals but 2K block > devices are rare really. It turns out that I can mount the device just fine if the filesystem on it is created with Windows XP. I conclude that the problem is not in kernel vfat but mkfs.vfat Regards Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel