Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:09:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:09:50 -0400 Received: from ns1.cypress.com ([157.95.67.4]:41875 "EHLO ns1.cypress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:09:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3D878CF7.3040304@cypress.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:13:43 -0500 From: Thomas Dodd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dharm CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net, gen-lists@blueyonder.co.uk Subject: Re: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage References: <3D878788.2030603@cypress.com> <20020917125817.B11583@one-eyed-alien.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 24 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/