>>>>> "Cam" == Cam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cam> I think there is something strange going on in the auto Cam> filesystem detection. If the VFAT / FAT16 / FAT32 filesystems Cam> are in some way similar when empty or with few files, there Cam> seems to be problems. Also do some DOS filesystems have more Cam> than one copy of the FAT? Are we looking at the wrong one or an Cam> old one?? >From browsing: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/ it appears that there are two FAT tables on FAT filesystems. Up until VFAT/FAT32, the first one (at sector 2) is the primary, and the second one (located where???) is the secondary. Starting with FAT32, the either of the two copies can be designated as primary. So maybe the problem is that somehow on this card the FAT not at sector 2 is designated as primary and thus gets the files from the camera/on windows, but Linux only looks at the sector 2 FAT??? When I get home tonight I'm going to try looking at the card using mtools instead of explicitly mounting it (if I can set that up) and see what they report. Cam> Did you have a fstab entry with auto in it? My fstab has vfat selected explicitly currently, although I experimented with other options and did try hand-mounting as well. I don't recall the exact results with each filesystem type, but the overall affect was either it didn't work at all or I had the same problem I described earlier. Cam> Finally, I also have some trouble with a 32Mb Smartmedia card - Cam> when I have erased all the pics from it (leaving only a Cam> filesystem and two nested directories), it sometimes fails to Cam> mount. Since this is so patchy I'm thinking it may be the card Cam> that is faulty. This does seem likely. Anybody have positive experiences with some other brand of large (>= 256MB) flash cards in these circumstances? Which? I don't have a problem just buying another card if this is the problem, since I have another use for the current one anyway, but I would prefer to get something that works rather than learning by trial and error... -- Keith ------------------------------------------------------- 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
