Re: Unable to mount the SD card formatted using the DIGITAL CAMREA on Linux box

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:05:50PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote:
> camera formatted info
> ----------------------
> Disk /dev/tfa0: 448 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 32768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/tfa0p1   *      0+    449     450-     14371+   1  FAT12
> /dev/tfa0p2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> /dev/tfa0p3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> /dev/tfa0p4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> Warning: partition 1 extends past end of disk

Why excactly does the partition table say 450 cylinders when the kernel
believes it to be 448 cylinders?  Someone is wrong.  Either the device
was partitioned wrong and hence formated wrong, or whatever driver the
kernel is using to read it is broken and returns the wrong size for the
device.

I have never heard of /dev/tfa0p* either.  What is that?

> Windows formatted info
> ----------------------
> Disk /dev/tfa0: 448 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 32768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/tfa0p1   *      0+    449     450-     14371+   1  FAT12
> /dev/tfa0p2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> /dev/tfa0p3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> /dev/tfa0p4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> Warning: partition 1 extends past end of disk

Identical.  Sure makes it look like a driver error on the linux side in
that case.

Len Sorensen