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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
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Subject: Re: Sony Memory stick format funnies...
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Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I doubt the kernel is seeing it without it being there (it doesn't have
> > > > much imagination.)  However, it may very well be there in a funny
> > > > manner.  You do realize, of course, that it's pretty much impossible for
> > > > us to help you answer that question without a complete dump of the
> > > > filesystem on hand, I hope?
> > >
> > > He gave what he thought was a complete dump of the non-null bytes. The
> > > obvious answer is that he's looking wrong. :)
> > >
> >
> > Hence the "complete" part...
> 
> OK.
> 
> The image of the disk (including partition table) is at:
> 
>         ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/misc_junk/formatted.img.gz
> 
> It's 63kb and uncompresses to the 64Mb (almost) that it's sold as.
> 

And on at least this kernel (2.4.0) there is nothing funny about it:

: tazenda 13 ; ls -l /mnt
total 0
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 May 23  2000 memstick.ind*
: tazenda 14 ; 

Mounting msdos, vfat or umsdos, no change.

	-hpa

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