> On 1/20/06, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What do you get from "dd if=/dev/sda count=1 | hexdump -C"?
>>
>> Alan Stern
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> % dd if=/dev/sda count=1 | hexdump
>
> gives all zeroes. If I increase count, occasionally some data shows up
> which isn't meaningful ascii, but mostly zero. The same flashdisk
> mounts fine on a known-to-work platform, and shows the same output for
> the above command.
>
> Also below is what I get from usb-storage when I type the above
> command on the platform that fails mounting.
>
> Do you have a suggestion for what to check? Since the drive mounts
> fine on a host controller that works, I guess it's not the partition
> table I need to inspect?
Make sure you enabled config option (e.g MAC_PARTITION or MSDOS_PARTITION
etc) for right partition type support when you compile kernel. For e.g. if
you seen the disk working on windows, then enable support for
MSDOS_PARTITION.
Give it a try, this might fix the problem.
>
> Many thanks,
> Bahadir
Subhash
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