umass not working with MP3 Player

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Fri May 19 23:23:07 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-May-14 09:22:48 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>umass0: EM706S EM706S MP3 Player, rev 1.10/10.01, addr 2
...
>da0: <EM706S MP3 Player 0100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device 
>da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>da0: 491MB (251456 2048 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 122C)

The point I missed here is "2048 byte sectors".

>turion% dd if=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1 >/dev/null

Reading 512 bytes from a device with 2KB sectors won't work.  Reading
a 2KB block does work.

My next problem is that mtools is incompatible with anything other
than 512 byte sectors but I'll take that up on a more relevant list.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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