Sony Memory stick format funnies...

Rogier Wolff
2001-04-28T22:37:10Z

Hi,

I have a Sony memory stick in my system. When I display all the
interesting (i.e. not all 0xff and not all 0x00 data), I see (on a
recently formatted stick):

% hd /dev/hde | grep -v "ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff" | grep -v "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"
001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 02 ................
001c0 08 00 01 07 d0 dd 27 00 00 00 d9 ee 01 00 00 00 ....P]'...Yn....
001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa ..............U*
04e00 e9 00 00 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 02 20 01 00 i.. .. ..
04e10 02 00 02 00 00 f8 0c 00 10 00 08 00 27 00 00 00 .....x......'...
04e20 d9 ee 01 00 00 00 29 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Yn....).........
04e30 00 00 00 00 00 00 46 41 54 31 32 20 20 20 00 00 ......FAT12 ..
04ff0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa ..............U*
05000 f8 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 x...............
06800 f8 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 x...............
08000 4d 45 4d 53 54 49 43 4b 49 4e 44 03 00 00 00 00 MEMSTICKIND.....
08010 00 00 00 00 00 00 4f 4c b7 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......OL7(......
%

However, when I mount the stick on /mnt/d1 I see:

# l /mnt/d1
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 512 root root 16384 Mar 24 17:26 dcim/
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 23 2000 memstick.ind*
#

Where the *(&#$%& does that "dcim" directory come from????

Roger.

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