FAT errors

[Claudio Carlquist]

I´ve got the very same problem when using the first Warty version that
I´d downloaded on Ubuntu´s "day one". I´m using an iBook (PPC) and a
Skylight TMP-100 mp3 player.

Due to the neverending error messages, I decided to abort the transfer
process and so my player got to a "brick state". It was impossible to
format it even on a Windows box. At the end I just plugged it to my
Slackware box running the stock 2.6.7 kernel and ran fdisk on it;
later on it was reformated using vfat on the same Slackware machine.
Now I´m playing the safe mode and using it on my Slackware´s desktop
only, after reading about some SCSI emulation problems that appeared
on 2.6.8 kernel series. Maybe I´m just being lazy, but I´m waiting for
the 2.6 series to get more mature before risking my player again...


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:37:40 +0100, Joaquin Cuenca Abela
<e98cuenc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:20:42 -0500, anomie <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > Joaquin,
> >
> > Just curious - is it possible to format the mp3 player with a Linux
> > filesystem (e.g. ext2, perhaps)? I am not necessarily suggesting this
> > as a fix, but just wondering if it would still work as an mp3 player.
> 
> Not tried, but I don't think it will work.
> The firmware in the player doesn't know how to read the files on an
> ext2 filesystem, so it should not be able to play any file.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Joaquin Cuenca Abela
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