camalot > Any idea what might be happening here? I thought the cards just had a > standard FAT16 filesystem. How can there appear to be two completely > different directories hierarchies on this 256MB card? I have checked > a lot of different things:
It's not very helpful but I have seen something similar in a friend's 128Mb Smartmedia card/USB reader/RedHat 7.3. He mounted and unmounted the card from linux and saw a small number of files (3 images). Took more photos on the camera in addition to the three images, and from another linux box it was possible to view the whole set of images. From the original linux box only three images were visible. We messed about with an entry in /etc/fstab as updfstab was unable to run on that system. We commented the line: /dev/sda1 /mnt/smartMedia auto owner Then we mounted by hand as root, and the linux box was able to see all the images. I think there is something strange going on in the auto filesystem detection. If the VFAT / FAT16 / FAT32 filesystems are in some way similar when empty or with few files, there seems to be problems. Also do some DOS filesystems have more than one copy of the FAT? Are we looking at the wrong one or an old one?? Did you have a fstab entry with auto in it? Finally, I also have some trouble with a 32Mb Smartmedia card - when I have erased all the pics from it (leaving only a filesystem and two nested directories), it sometimes fails to mount. Since this is so patchy I'm thinking it may be the card that is faulty. -Cam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
