Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

[Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>]

David Weinehall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:35:29PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > David Weinehall wrote:
> > > I've got an Archos AV500 here (running the very latest firmware), pretty
> > > much acting as a doorstop, since I cannot get it to be recognized
> > > properly by Linux.
> > ..
> >
> > > [  118.144000] SCSI device sdb: 58074975 512-byte hdwr sectors (29734
> > > MB)
> > > [  118.144000] sdb: Write Protect is off
> > > [  118.144000] sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
> > > [  118.144000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> > > [  118.144000]  sdb: unknown partition table
> > > [  118.452000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
> > > [  118.452000] usb-storage: device scan complete
> > >
> > > This is with linux-image-2.6.19-7-generic 2.6.19-7.10 from Ubuntu edgy.
> > > I get similar results with a home-brew 2.6.18-rc4.
> > >
> > > Any mass storage quirk needed that might be missing?
> > That all seems normal, other than the unknown partition table, but the 
> > device might be all one unpartitioned disk.. at what point is it failing?
>
> Mounting it just claims wrong FS type.  And I've tried most file systems
> I can think of just to be sure.

Can you read the whole volume with 'dd'? If yes, you could provide
a hex dump of the first few sectors? Probably someone on this list will
recognize the format...

Jan
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