On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gian Ghodrat wrote:
>
> > Well, that's pretty clear. Your partition table is messed up. Doesn't it
> > seem a little strange that sdb1 occupies more space than actually exists
> > in sdb? 1912 cylinders total, but sdb1 ends at cylinder 1938. 489472
> > 1-KB blocks total, but sdb1 has 496112 blocks.
> >
> > You better repartition that device.
> >
> > Alan Stern
>
> Hehe, of course this seems strange, but what seems even stranger is that
> thats the way the device is partitioned by its own format option using
> the mp3 players menu.
> But even if i repartition it with fdisk and mkfs, result is the same.
> I guess either the devices firmware is buggy or the devices flash memory
> is partly broken, would you agree?
Sure sounds like it. It's odd that the device won't let you write
whatever you want to the partition sector. For instance,
dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/sdb
should do a good job of wiping everything out. I guess it's possible that
the firmware specifically recognizes attempts to access that sector and
always replies with some fixed, wrong data. Is there a firmware upgrade
available from the manufacturer?
Alan Stern
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