Re: *FAT problem in 2.6.0-test8

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:32:26PM +0200, Vid Strpic wrote:

> Yesterday, I just wanted to download some pics from a Smartmedia card
> from my camera.  I put the card into the reader (USB Mass Storage Flash
> Card Reader, Manufacturer: EZ, Serial Number: 9876543210ABCDEF, driver
> is usb-storage and working well now, I had problems earlier), but the
> kernel doesn't recognize FAT filesystem on the card...
> 
> Oct 23 17:19:01 moria kernel: FAT: invalid first entry of FAT (0xff8 != 0x0)
> 
> Luckily, I have a 2.4 machine around, I tried to mount the resulting
> disk image (NFS) on that machine (-o loop ofcourse), and it worked
> perfectly... kernel is 2.4.22.
> 
> Any ideas what's wrong?

Go to linux/fs/fat, edit inode.c, comment the bit

        if (FAT_FIRST_ENT(sb, media) != first
            && (media != 0xf8 || FAT_FIRST_ENT(sb, 0xfe) != first)) {
                if (!silent) {
                        printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: invalid first entry of FAT "
                               "(0x%x != 0x%x)\n",
                               FAT_FIRST_ENT(sb, media), first);
                }
                goto out_invalid;
        }

out by putting #if 0 ... #endif around it.

How was this card formatted?

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