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"
<-----------------[ snip ]----------------->
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
