Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

[Mr Smiley <mr_smiley_home@yahoo.com>]

I have a satellite receiver that records to an external USB device which 
has to be formatted to Fat32. Every few weeks it says it can't find a 
compatible fat32 device. If  I connect the usb device (either usb stick 
or external hard disk) to a windows machine and copy any file to the 
same folder, so it creates a xxxxxcopy1.xxx and then delete that same 
file. Reconnecting the device to the receiver it sees the device as a 
valid fat32 and everybody’s happy.

If i do the same on my debian system, create say using touch and then 
delete, the receiver still refuses to see it. Only a windows machine can 
get it working again.

The closest I’ve come to an answer is that Linux can't fully use the 
windows method of long file names properly.

So there is a major difference in the way Linux and windows handle file 
naming. The file names look the same on both Linux and windows, but 
behind the scenes they are not.

I stopped using the receiver in the end, my mate up the road with a 
windows lappy got fed up of me knocking him up in the early hours :(

:o)


On 20/10/16 22:12, David Christensen wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 11:04 AM, Brian wrote:
> > Wiping the first megabyte is good advice - it will remove any trace
> > of previously installed Debian isohybrid images. But Windows machines
> > aren't thick on the ground here. Can I use a Linux machine? Will I
> > regret it if I do?
> On 10/20/2016 11:07 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
> > I have not checked accurately, but nowadays letting Windows chose the
> > format will possibly yield exFAT, which is very low in terms of
> > compatibility, starting with Linux itself (FUSE filesystems are not
> > part of Linux).
> I have a backup/ imaging/ workbench/ experiment computer with 3.5" and
> 2.5" HDD/ SSD mobile racks and trayless racks.  I keep a working Windows
> XP image on a HDD for just these occasions.  I believe Windows NT does
> NTFS and FAT 12/16/32 (?).  I typically use NTFS, as Debian has
> supported NTFS read/ write for several years now and because NTFS is
> needed by Norton Ghost 2003 for long file names (one of my favorite
> tools from the XP days).
>
>
> My digital camera (Canon G9X) has a 64 GB SDXC card (SanDisk
> SDSDXPA-064G-X46), which is factory-formatted; I believe it is exFAT.  I
> have tried connecting the camera to Wheezy over a USB cable more than
> once, but have never succeeded at accessing files.  The work-around is
> to take the flash card out and use an USB flash card reader (IOGEAR
> GFR209).  Sometimes I have similar issues with Android phones, with the
> same work-around.  I've installed several packages along the way,
> probably more that I need:
>
>      exfat-fuse
>      exfat-utils
>      gvfs
>      gvfs-backends
>      jmtpfs
>
>
> Apple devices are even harder.  The work-around has been to have my son
> connect them to his MacBook Pro and copy the files to the file server.
>
>
> David
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT