can't mount a 4G USB memory stick (fat)

Luming Yu luming.yu at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 03:13:34 UTC 2010


Hi list,

I noticed f13-beta can't mount 4G USB memory stick (fat)
Any plan to fix it?

Thanks,
Luming


# dmesg | tail
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
FAT: count of clusters too big (65526)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
FAT: count of clusters too big (65526)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
# fdisk /dev/sdb

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
         switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
         sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 485 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         261     2097152    6  FAT16
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 255, 63) logical=(260, 17, 16)


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