Cannot mount Sony Ericsson mobile phone, msdosfs too restrictive?

[Dennis Melentyev]

Can't confirm, but it seems like formating card with phone will give
you FAT12 even on 1Gb card. (Not volunteering to reformat my "player")
:)

2007/7/2, Dennis Melentyev <dennis.melentyev at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> 2007/7/2, Raaf <raaf at zen.mooo.com>:
> > Brian Chu wrote:
> > > Raaf,
> > >
> > > What's the size of the memory stick?  Is it 32MB like Dennis has?
> It was 64MB card also. :)
> AFAIR, FAT12 is just not correct format for disks larger than 32Mb.
> It has to use clusters not handled by original MSDOS in this case.
>
> So, my answer is: SE just use wrong FAT.
>
> But, meanwile, it should be ok to allow this insanity be handled.
> Despite I'd rather use smaller clusters for such a tiny drive.
>
> > >
> >
> > It's a 64MB memory stick using FAT12.
>
> MSDOS 3.3 will go crazy with that :)
>
> >
> > > The check for the field that affected you isn't critical to msdosfs'
> > > operation, but the field itself is specified to be non-zero.
> > > Konstantin, is it alright to remove this field?
> > >
> >
> > It seems there are more people having problems with the sanity checking
> > code of msdosfs, see also this related pr:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93860
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Dennis Melentyev
>


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Dennis Melentyev