The original 1-gig Zenstone MP3 players mount on Debian just fine if one has vfat support so I expected it to be a breeze to load a brand new 2-gig model, not the Zenstone Plus, but the 2-gigabyte model that has the tiny speaker.
Boy, was I wrong about the ease factor. There is some weird variant of the fat32 FS on this drive and I haven't been able to mount it to save my soul. $ fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 2008 MB, 2008547328 bytes 1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63273 cylinders Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 63274 1961471+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. It gets better. # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt "FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value" Nothing mounts. Game over. I did capture an image of the flash drive. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/image.bin bs=512 Doing the strings utility on the first few bytes of image.bin yields NXP )xV4 ZEN STONE FAT32 RRaA rrAa NXP )xV4 ZEN STONE FAT32 RRaA rrAa ZEN STONE RANSF~1RAT An older working Zenstone's beginning sectors look like MSWIN4.1 FAT32 RRaA rrAa MSWIN4.1 FAT32 RRaA rrAa ZEN Stone Is there any way to make this odd-ball fat32 mount? If that XP really means Windows XP and not just garbage that strings picked up, then that may explain things a bit. Is there something I need to upgrade? I am running a 2.6.5 kernel with support for most of the common Microsoft file systems but we are dead in the water on this little project, so far. Thanks for any constructive ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]