That did it, thanks. That seems like a bug to me, though -- if the medium supports switching sizes, then the driver should either support it or squeal when it happens.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, David A. Cafaro wrote: > Seen this happen for other USB devices. Try unloading and reloading the > modules (usb-scsi, etc..) that come up for that device. For some reason > it likes to cache the information on USB scsi devices as far as size. > This only seems to come up on devices with interchangeable media > (including USB hard drives when you swap the hard drive inside). Beyond > that haven't come up with a good solution yet. > > > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 13:57, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Greetings, and happy new year all. > > > > Got a new toy, a Fuji FinePix A310 digital camera. The xD card it came > > with (a 16MB one) works just great, mounting under linux as /dev/sde1 as a > > vfat device. But I bought a bigger (128M) card, and now I get: > > > > mount -tvfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/camera/ > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, > > or too many mounted file systems > > > > > > The log shows: > > > > Jan 2 13:45:58 joehill kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535 > > Jan 2 13:45:58 joehill kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on > > dev 08:41. > > > > > > Perhaps more intriguingly, take a look at what fdisk thinks: > > > > fdisk /dev/sde > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/sde: 16 MB, 16384000 bytes > > 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 62 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sde1 * 1 500 127976+ 6 FAT16 > > > > > > > > ...so it thinks it's a 16M disk with a 128M partition on it, which might > > explain why it's "bogus." But how do I get this to work right? Any > > suggestions are welcome. > > > > Running kernel 2.4.20, debian testing/unstable. > > > > Thanks! > > Andy > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > -- > David A. Cafaro <dac(at)cafaro.net> > Sys Admin to User: "You did what?!?" > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
