msdosfs on D70

[Wesley Morgan]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:

> Wesley Morgan wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:
>> 
>>> Wesley Morgan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I can't seem to mount the FAT32 fs created by my D70. Windows and 
>>>> mtools both are able to read it just fine. Has anyone encountered this 
>>>> problem?
>>>> The output from fdisk and "minfo" are below. Perhaps someone can get 
>>>> this working properly! :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Somebody might be able to help you if you explained
>>> what a "D70" is...
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, slipped my mind. It's a digital camera, a "Nikon D70" as indicated 
>> in the disk label.
>
> Oh, okay - so this is presumably a filesystem on a Flash card then?

It's on a Hitachi 4gb microdrive (not one of the "white" drives, either).


>> The error is simply:
>> 
>> mountmsdosfs(): bad FAT32 filesystem
>> 
>>> 
>>>> sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA))
>>>>     start 63, size 7998417 (3905 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>>>>         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
>>>>         end: cyl 766/ head 15/ sector 63
>
> If it is Flash, the above says it's (about) a 4GB (3905MB) filesystem.
> Do you really have a 4GB Flash card?  If not, maybe that's
> why it complains, because of inconsistencies with other values?
> Can you possibly format it via FreeBSD, then maybe everyone
> (OSes) will be happy?   Sorry, can't help you beyond this...
>
> Gary
>
>>>> bootsector information
>>>> ======================
>>>> banner:"MSDOS5.0"
>>>> sector size: 512 bytes
>>>> cluster size: 64 sectors
>>>> reserved (boot) sectors: 32
>>>> fats: 2
>>>> max available root directory slots: 0
>>>> small size: 0 sectors
>>>> media descriptor byte: 0xf8
>>>> sectors per fat: 0
>>>> sectors per track: 63
>>>> heads: 16
>>>> hidden sectors: 63
>>>> big size: 7998417 sectors
>>>> physical drive id: 0x80
>>>> reserved=0x0
>>>> dos4=0x29
>>>> serial number: 00000000
>>>> disk label="NIKON D70  "
>>>> disk type="FAT32   "
>>>> Big fatlen=977
>>>> Extended flags=0x0000
>>>> FS version=0x0000
>>>> rootCluster=2
>>>> infoSector location=1
>>>> backup boot sector=6
>>>> 
>>>> Infosector:
>>>> signature=0x41615252
>>>> free clusters=69396
>>>> last allocated cluster=2
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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