Just yesterday, we got a new 2-gig Zenstone mp3 player. I was expecting to routinely plug it in to the USB port on my Debian system and load it with tunes. Not so fast. The mount command crashed and burned with "FAT: bogus sectors-per-track value" I then tried fdisk -l and the drive in question reports Disk /dev/sda: 2008 MB, 2008547328 bytes 1 heads, 62 sectors/track, 63273 cylinders Units = cylinders of 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 63274 1961471+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. I did an image dump of that device and it appears to be some form of fat32 file system that may be related to Windows XP. Using strings on the image showed NXP )xV4 ZEN STONE FAT32 RRaA rrAa NXP )xV4 ZEN STONE FAT32 RRaA rrAa ZEN STONE Some of this is just text garbage produced when strings sees binary data that are in the range of ASCII characters, but it is pretty obvious that Linux can not mount this file system at all. Older Zenstones seem to have been formatted with a normal FAT32 file systems. A dump of the first few sectors from a 1-gigabyte Zenstone looks like MSWIN4.1 FAT32 RRaA rrAa MSWIN4.1 FAT32 RRaA rrAa ZEN Stone I am running the Debian 2.6.5 kernel and have no trouble loading FAT32 file systems such as one often finds on USB thumb drives. Since the format of the Zenstone is not really related to music, we may be about to get nasty surprises when we try to access flash drives that we can't just reformat. If anybody has any suggestions as to how to access this new player, I would love to hear about it. Zenstones have been pretty accessible up to now, but that doesn't seem to be the case any more. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list