Re: Sony Memory stick format funnies...

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 15:33:35 EST


Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I doubt the kernel is seeing it without it being there (it doesn't have
> > > > much imagination.) However, it may very well be there in a funny
> > > > manner. You do realize, of course, that it's pretty much impossible for
> > > > us to help you answer that question without a complete dump of the
> > > > filesystem on hand, I hope?
> > >
> > > He gave what he thought was a complete dump of the non-null bytes. The
> > > obvious answer is that he's looking wrong. :)
> > >
> >
> > Hence the "complete" part...
>
> OK.
>
> The image of the disk (including partition table) is at:
>
> ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/misc_junk/formatted.img.gz
>
> It's 63kb and uncompresses to the 64Mb (almost) that it's sold as.
>

And on at least this kernel (2.4.0) there is nothing funny about it:

: tazenda 13 ; ls -l /mnt
total 0
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 23 2000 memstick.ind*
: tazenda 14 ;

Mounting msdos, vfat or umsdos, no change.

        -hpa

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