Re: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage

Thomas Dodd
2002-09-17T20:09:50Z

Matthew Dharm wrote:
> The device may not actually have the beginning few sectors. Use skip= to
> try to read something from the middle of the media.

Give that a go Mark.

Try a few values like 25, 50, 75, and 100. with bs=1k and
unset (default 512 byte).

> Yes, I actually have seen this before. The firmware 'fakes' a partition
> table on the first attempt to read one, but sector 0 really isn't there.

Am I glad I have a CF camera:) What kind of
junk is SmartMedia, missing sectors? Ugh!

-Thomas