[TriLUG] Problem w/ mounting digital camera

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings, and happy new year all.

Got a new toy, a Fuji FinePix A310 digital camera. The xD card it came
with (a 16MB one) works just great, mounting under linux as /dev/sde1 as a
vfat device.  But I bought a bigger (128M) card, and now I get:

mount -tvfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/camera/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1,
       or too many mounted file systems


The log shows:

Jan  2 13:45:58 joehill kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
Jan  2 13:45:58 joehill kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on
dev 08:41.


Perhaps more intriguingly, take a look at what fdisk thinks:

fdisk /dev/sde

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sde: 16 MB, 16384000 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 62 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1   *           1         500      127976+   6  FAT16



...so it thinks it's a 16M disk with a 128M partition on it, which might
explain why it's "bogus." But how do I get this to work right? Any
suggestions are welcome.

Running kernel 2.4.20, debian testing/unstable.

Thanks!
Andy

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