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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Luming Yu <luming.yu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I noticed f13-beta can't mount 4G USB memory stick (fat)
> Any plan to fix it?

Need more information.
1) Did this work before?
2) FAT16 is limited to 2GB for the most part.. FAT32 is required for
4GB. Although it looks like it was formatted with the 64K cluster
fat16 which I have no idea who supports.
3) Is it only this stick or others? [I have a 4GB stick here that
seems to work great but it is formatted as W95 FAT32 (LBA)

> 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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