Re: flash device detected with 2KB sectors

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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