From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 3 03:17:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6EA16A41F; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:17:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from ns.trinitel.com (186.161.36.72.static.reverse.layeredtech.com [72.36.161.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071F713C489; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 03:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from proton.local (r74-193-81-203.pfvlcmta01.grtntx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net [74.193.81.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns.trinitel.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6332tMY050472; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:02:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4689BC5C.90909@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:02:52 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Melentyev References: <4687FF75.3000108@zen.mooo.com> <47a4f3080707011454m6e06c97bu4764b32a65160ad6@mail.gmail.com> <468825A9.80200@zen.mooo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ns.trinitel.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Raaf , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount Sony Ericsson mobile phone, msdosfs too restrictive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:17:49 -0000 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 : >> Hi! >> >> 2007/7/2, Raaf : >> > 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 >> > >