Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:02:52 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Dennis Melentyev <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Raaf <raaf@zen.mooo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount Sony Ericsson mobile phone, msdosfs too restrictive? Message-ID: <4689BC5C.90909@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <b84edfa10707021332o6ed8bfd8p5f08aec4826fe05f@mail.gmail.com> References: <4687FF75.3000108@zen.mooo.com> <b84edfa10707011305g4cffb298q70c3507f75121799@mail.gmail.com> <47a4f3080707011454m6e06c97bu4764b32a65160ad6@mail.gmail.com> <468825A9.80200@zen.mooo.com> <b84edfa10707021330h42936d92x874acf8e900caffa@mail.gmail.com> <b84edfa10707021332o6ed8bfd8p5f08aec4826fe05f@mail.gmail.com>
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Dennis Melentyev wrote: > Can't confirm, but it seems like formating card with phone will give > you FAT12 even on 1Gb card. (Not volunteering to reformat my "player") > :) It would be useful to some people to have access to a FAT12 formatted file system that is >32MB. Can you (or someone else) dd the flash to a file (the 64MB file is file), and then gzip it? Preferably a freshly formatted fat12 would be best. Eric > 2007/7/2, Dennis Melentyev <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com>: >> Hi! >> >> 2007/7/2, Raaf <raaf@zen.mooo.com>: >> > Brian Chu wrote: >> > > Raaf, >> > > >> > > What's the size of the memory stick? Is it 32MB like Dennis has? >> It was 64MB card also. :) >> AFAIR, FAT12 is just not correct format for disks larger than 32Mb. >> It has to use clusters not handled by original MSDOS in this case. >> >> So, my answer is: SE just use wrong FAT. >> >> But, meanwile, it should be ok to allow this insanity be handled. >> Despite I'd rather use smaller clusters for such a tiny drive. >> >> > > >> > >> > It's a 64MB memory stick using FAT12. >> >> MSDOS 3.3 will go crazy with that :) >> >> > >> > > The check for the field that affected you isn't critical to msdosfs' >> > > operation, but the field itself is specified to be non-zero. >> > > Konstantin, is it alright to remove this field? >> > > >> > >> > It seems there are more people having problems with the sanity checking >> > code of msdosfs, see also this related pr: >> > >> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93860 >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Dennis Melentyev >> > >
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