On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Maybe I broke the card while ejecting and reinserting? >I doubt it. Do you have a bunch of /dev/mmc... whatevers? I'm >completely unfamiliar with what sort of device that might be, but the >USB flash drives are usually seen by the kernel as equivalent of SCSI >drives, hence an assignment to /dev/sb... (for SCSI block device). OK, after a night's sleep and my morning coffee it occurred to me that my computer has several GUI disk utilities that might help. I started with Palimpsest, which has the handy ability to read information from Smart drives. Palimpsest once diagnosed a failing hard drive on another computer, and saved me potential headaches. When I launched Palimpsest at first it did not see the SD card. But after I popped the card out and reinserted it Palimpsest automatically added it to the list of devices. And Nautilus automatically opened a file browser window. I noted in the Nautilus window that reformatting it on my phone had added LOST.DIR and Android-secure folders. Palimpsest reported the following potentially useful information: DRIVE: Model: SU32G Firmware version: 12/2010 Capacity: 32 GB Partitioning: Master boot record Serial number: 0c38530e Device: /dev/mmcblk0 Rotation rate: Solid state disk Connection: SDIO Smart status Not supported In the DRIVE section Palimpsest offers buttons for Format Drive, and for Benchmark. VOLUMES: Usage: Filesystem Partition type W95 FAT32 (LBA) (0x0c) Partition flags Bootable Type: FAT (32 bit version) Device: /dev/mmcblk0p1 Partition label: - Capacity: 32 GB Available: - Mount point: Mounted at /media/2535-1DF9 In the VOLUME section Palimpsest offers buttons for Unmount Volume, Check Filesystem, Delete Partition, Format Volume, and Edit Partition. The only button I tried was Edit Partition, which popped up a little window with Partition Label (grayed out), Type (drop-down, currently at "W95 FAT32 (LBA) (0x0c), and offering many other filesystem types), plus a check box for "Bootable," which is checked. I exited the window without changing anything. My original line in fstab was: /dev/mmcblk0 /media/SD vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0 But that always generated error messages that /dev/mmcblk0 did not exist. So, armed with the information from Palimpsest I changed it to: /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/SD vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0 However, that generates error messages that /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist. I'm still not there, but I feel I am getting closer. Some questions: Do I need this thing to be bootable? I will use it just for additional storage. Would removing the Bootable flag do anything to resolve the problem? (Probably not.) The partition type is W95 VFAT (LBA) (0x0c). What do "LBA" and "0x0c" mean? Is the "vfat" in my fstab line the correct way to tell fstab what filesystem it is? I might want to use the card to transfer files to other people's computers, so VFAT is probably the best choice, but there are other VFAT options in the Palimpsest drop-down. Should I reformat it to a different filesystem? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
