Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966274AbWK3M4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:56:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936379AbWK3M4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:56:17 -0500 Received: from mail.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.156]:44284 "EHLO mail.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936364AbWK3M4P (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:56:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:56:05 +0100 From: David Weinehall To: Jan Dittmer Cc: Robert Hancock , Linux-Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500 Message-ID: <20061130125605.GW14886@vasa.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Jan Dittmer , Robert Hancock , Linux-Kernel Mailing List References: <456E5F91.7020300@shaw.ca> <20061130085356.GV14886@vasa.acc.umu.se> <456EA95C.8070301@l4x.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <456EA95C.8070301@l4x.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Editor: Vi Improved X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pub_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2074 Lines: 50 On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:50:20AM +0100, Jan Dittmer wrote: > 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... I did this and looked into the image myself. It definitely looks like a FAT32 image. I've made the first MB available here: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/transfer/archos.img.bz2 Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - 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/