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

[Luming Yu]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Never tried it before , but it works on XP

> 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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