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From: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
To: tao@acc.umu.se
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	Linux-Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:50:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456EA95C.8070301@l4x.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061130085356.GV14886@vasa.acc.umu.se>

David Weinehall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:35:29PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> David Weinehall wrote:
>>> I've got an Archos AV500 here (running the very latest firmware), pretty
>>> much acting as a doorstop, since I cannot get it to be recognized
>>> properly by Linux.
>> ..
>>
>>> [  118.144000] SCSI device sdb: 58074975 512-byte hdwr sectors (29734
>>> MB)
>>> [  118.144000] sdb: Write Protect is off
>>> [  118.144000] sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
>>> [  118.144000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>>> [  118.144000]  sdb: unknown partition table
>>> [  118.452000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
>>> [  118.452000] usb-storage: device scan complete
>>>
>>> This is with linux-image-2.6.19-7-generic 2.6.19-7.10 from Ubuntu edgy.
>>> I get similar results with a home-brew 2.6.18-rc4.
>>>
>>> Any mass storage quirk needed that might be missing?
>> That all seems normal, other than the unknown partition table, but the 
>> device might be all one unpartitioned disk.. at what point is it failing?
> 
> Mounting it just claims wrong FS type.  And I've tried most file systems
> I can think of just to be sure.

Can you read the whole volume with 'dd'? If yes, you could provide
a hex dump of the first few sectors? Probably someone on this list will
recognize the format...

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.+HViQkzstd1WGzxw6QnaK2a1tiY@ifi.uio.no>
2006-11-30  4:35 ` mass-storage problems with Archos AV500 Robert Hancock
2006-11-30  8:53   ` David Weinehall
2006-11-30  9:50     ` Jan Dittmer [this message]
2006-11-30 12:56       ` David Weinehall
2006-11-29 21:47 David Weinehall
2006-12-01 14:32 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-12-05 16:04   ` David Weinehall

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