Re: mass-storage problems with Archos AV500

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

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.


Regards: David
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