msdosfs on D70

[Wesley Morgan]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, George Morgan wrote:

> Are you trying to mount the filesystem through the camera or using a card
> reader?
>
> (BTW, I have a D70 also, but am not using a microdrive with it.  Microdrives are
> big, but they are also slow.)

I've tried it from the camera, a usb card reader, and a pccard adapter - 
all with the same result. It's probably has something to do with fat32.

> Quoting Gary Corcoran <garycor at comcast.net>:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>> 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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