Hello everybody, Have a Samsung YH-820, 5-gig USB iPod-like music player. It shows up in lsusb and dmesg.
sfdisk lists four empty partitions. Each one starts at cylinder 0 but the last cylinder line just has three dashes '---'. The <c,h,s> part indicates 0 cyls, 64 sects, 32 secs/track. O cyls? That's not right, surely. At the end of all this info is: 'read: input/output error-cannot read sector 0' and 'unrecognized partition table type' An attempt at dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1 found no such address. mkdosfs -F16 -I /dev/sdb resulted in 'Attempting to create a too large filesystem' Attempts to mount the thing result in 'can't read superblock' Each of these commands take about 10 mins to complete. Seems way to long to me, and I have a fairly fast system w/1 G RAM, but this is my first experience with these types of devices. Is is time to give up, tell the owner he needs a new HD? -mw __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list