Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:23:06AM +1000, David Gillies wrote: > > Does anyone out there have any recommendations for Linux friendly flash > > mp3 players? > > Strangely, I've had more trouble using my MP3 player with Windows. It's a > Skymedia 256MB flash-based player. It uses a variant of FAT for its > filesystem, meaning that I need to use its proprietary Windows software to > format it (I've had no luck with mkfs.vfat on GNU/Linux). However, whenever I > read/write files to/from it in Windows Explorer (XP and 2003), the filesystem > becomes corrupted and it refuses to turn on. When that happens, I need to > reformat it using its own software. I have no such problem in Linux, using it > as a USB mass storage device.
The trick with this is to use 'dd'. I had a device which was particularly picky about how it was formatted - for some reason the internal 'format card' command would give a useable FS, but if I formatted in Linux/Win32, the card would be perfectly useable *except* in that one device. I ended up zeroing the drive, formatting in the device, and 'dd'ing the image to a file. My format script then just dd'd this image back onto the card. I only copied over the first few sectors as the rest were zero, so it's as fast as a normal format. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
