[TriLUG] Problem w/ mounting digital camera

[Andrew Perrin]

That did it, thanks. That seems like a bug to me, though -- if the medium
supports switching sizes, then the driver should either support it or
squeal when it happens.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> Seen this happen for other USB devices.  Try unloading and reloading the
> modules (usb-scsi, etc..) that come up for that device.  For some reason
> it likes to cache the information on USB scsi devices as far as size.
> This only seems to come up on devices with interchangeable media
> (including USB hard drives when you swap the hard drive inside).  Beyond
> that haven't come up with a good solution yet.
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 13:57, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> > clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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