Re: Trying to Mount New 2-Gig Zenstone MP3 Player
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:47:26PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The original 1-gig Zenstone MP3 players mount on Debian
> just fine if one has vfat support so I expected it to be a
> breeze to load a brand new 2-gig model, not the Zenstone Plus,
> but the 2-gigabyte model that has the tiny speaker.
>
> Boy, was I wrong about the ease factor.
>
> There is some weird variant of the fat32 FS on this drive
> and I haven't been able to mount it to save my soul.
>
> $ fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 2008 MB, 2008547328 bytes
> 1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63273 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 63274 1961471+ b W95 FAT32
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>
> It gets better.
>
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> "FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value"
>
> Nothing mounts. Game over.
>
> I did capture an image of the flash drive.
>
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/image.bin bs=512
>
> Doing the strings utility on the first few bytes of image.bin
> yields
>
> NXP
> )xV4
> ZEN STONE FAT32
> RRaA
> rrAa
> NXP
> )xV4
> ZEN STONE FAT32
> RRaA
> rrAa
> ZEN STONE
> RANSF~1RAT
>
> An older working Zenstone's beginning sectors look like
>
> MSWIN4.1
> FAT32
> RRaA
> rrAa
> MSWIN4.1
> FAT32
> RRaA
> rrAa
> ZEN Stone
>
> Is there any way to make this odd-ball fat32 mount?
>
> If that XP really means Windows XP and not just garbage that
> strings picked up, then that may explain things a bit.
>
> Is there something I need to upgrade?
>
> I am running a 2.6.5 kernel with support for most of the
> common Microsoft file systems but we are dead in the water on
> this little project, so far.
>
> Thanks for any constructive ideas.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>
>
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Try the following as root or sudo
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
--
Alexander J.M.
Linux 2.6.18-6-686 i686
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