Re: Trying to Mount New 2-Gig Zenstone MP3 Player
- From: ajm <ajm91qw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:13:06 -0500
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:47:26PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
The original 1-gig Zenstone MP3 players mount on Debian
just fine if one has vfat support so I expected it to be a
breeze to load a brand new 2-gig model, not the Zenstone Plus,
but the 2-gigabyte model that has the tiny speaker.
Boy, was I wrong about the ease factor.
There is some weird variant of the fat32 FS on this drive
and I haven't been able to mount it to save my soul.
$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2008 MB, 2008547328 bytes
1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63273 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 63274 1961471+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
It gets better.
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
"FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value"
Nothing mounts. Game over.
I did capture an image of the flash drive.
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/image.bin bs=512
Doing the strings utility on the first few bytes of image.bin
yields
NXP
)xV4
ZEN STONE FAT32
RRaA
rrAa
NXP
)xV4
ZEN STONE FAT32
RRaA
rrAa
ZEN STONE
RANSF~1RAT
An older working Zenstone's beginning sectors look like
MSWIN4.1
FAT32
RRaA
rrAa
MSWIN4.1
FAT32
RRaA
rrAa
ZEN Stone
Is there any way to make this odd-ball fat32 mount?
If that XP really means Windows XP and not just garbage that
strings picked up, then that may explain things a bit.
Is there something I need to upgrade?
I am running a 2.6.5 kernel with support for most of the
common Microsoft file systems but we are dead in the water on
this little project, so far.
Thanks for any constructive ideas.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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Try the following as root or sudo
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
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Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686
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