linux-kernel - Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

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Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:50:20 +0100
From:	Jan Dittmer <jdi@....org>
To:	tao@....umu.se
CC:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	Linux-Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

David Weinehall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:35:29PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> David Weinehall wrote:
>>> I've got an Archos AV500 here (running the very latest firmware), pretty
>>> much acting as a doorstop, since I cannot get it to be recognized
>>> properly by Linux.
>> ..
>>
>>> [  118.144000] SCSI device sdb: 58074975 512-byte hdwr sectors (29734
>>> MB)
>>> [  118.144000] sdb: Write Protect is off
>>> [  118.144000] sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
>>> [  118.144000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>>> [  118.144000]  sdb: unknown partition table
>>> [  118.452000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
>>> [  118.452000] usb-storage: device scan complete
>>>
>>> This is with linux-image-2.6.19-7-generic 2.6.19-7.10 from Ubuntu edgy.
>>> I get similar results with a home-brew 2.6.18-rc4.
>>>
>>> Any mass storage quirk needed that might be missing?
>> That all seems normal, other than the unknown partition table, but the 
>> device might be all one unpartitioned disk.. at what point is it failing?
> 
> Mounting it just claims wrong FS type.  And I've tried most file systems
> I can think of just to be sure.

Can you read the whole volume with 'dd'? If yes, you could provide
a hex dump of the first few sectors? Probably someone on this list will
recognize the format...

Jan
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