Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
peter kostov wrote:
Hi,
I have a Samsung mp3 player that doesn't want to format his drive. When I run fsck on it I get:
# fsck.vfat -rtlV -v /dev/sdb1 dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem Boot sector contents: System ID "MSDOS5.0"
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I have tried mkdosfs with no luck. I will appreciate very much if anyone can tell mi what to do to get it back to work.
Peter
What kind of error did you get with mkdosfs? Did you remember to specify that you wanted a FAT32 file system? (-F 32).
Mikkel
Thanks Mikkel, but there wasn't an error. There wasn't any effect also. I have tried several times with -F 16, because fsck reported: First FAT starts at byte 512 (sector 1) 2 FATs, 16 bit entries Then I have tried with -F 32, again with no success. As I sad mkdosfs didn't report any error, however in dmesg I saw several resets of the device during the mkdosfs process. After that when I remount the player all the files are still there, and the player itself again doesn't see them. Peter