On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:22 +0000, Steven Flintham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian 3.1 and have been using a couple of 512MB SD cards in > my USB card reader without any problems. I'm running the standard 2.4 > kernel and have the following in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > When I do: > > mount /media/mmc > > the SD card mounts fine, and dmesg shows: > > SCSI device sdc: 1002496 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB) > sdc: Write Protect is off > /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun2: p1 > > I've recently bought a 2GB SD card, which seems to work fine (at least > as far as my Treo 600 is concerned). However, when I put it in the card > reader and try to mount it, the process hangs (the system is fine, it's > just that process which seems unkillable - I'm writing this with the > system in this state) and dmesg shows: > > SCSI device sdc: 2031616 1024-byte hdwr sectors (2080 MB) > sdc: Write Protect is off > /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun2:<6>usb.c: USB disconnect on device > 00:07.2-2address 2 > hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3 > WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured > USB Mass Storage device found at 3 > > I've tried running: > > mkdosfs /dev/sdc1 > > which works fine with a 512MB card but produces a similar process hang > with the 2GB card. > > I tried using the 2.6.8 kernel but when I installed it and rebooted, my > system seemed to encounter a kernel panic - I have to admit I haven't > investigated this in any great detail. > > I don't have any other operating systems installed so I can't tell if my > card reader is somehow incompatible with 2GB cards, but I tried booting > off an old version of Knoppix (3.6 2004-08-16) which I had lying around. > Under that I can't seem to manage to mount even my 512MB card, so that > wasn't much help. > > Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, and apologies if I somehow > managed to miss any advice on this when I searched the debian-user > archives.
The maximum size of a FAT16 FS is 2GB. Maybe there's an "off by 1" error? Have you tried formatting it FAT32, or re-partitioning sdc1 1.95GB? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors." Ralph Waldo Emerson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
