Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 23:32:59 +0300 From: "Dennis Melentyev" <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com> To: Raaf <raaf@zen.mooo.com> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Brian Chu <soc@hbar.us>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount Sony Ericsson mobile phone, msdosfs too restrictive? Message-ID: <b84edfa10707021332o6ed8bfd8p5f08aec4826fe05f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b84edfa10707021330h42936d92x874acf8e900caffa@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>
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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") :) 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 > -- Dennis Melentyev
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