Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

From: David Weinehall
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 07:56:38 EST


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:50:20AM +0100, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> 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...

I did this and looked into the image myself. It definitely looks like a
FAT32 image.

I've made the first MB available here:

http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/transfer/archos.img.bz2


Regards: David
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