Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

From: Jan Dittmer
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 04:50:49 EST


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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