Hello everybody,
Have a Samsung YH-820, 5-gig USB iPod-like music
player. It shows up in lsusb and dmesg.
sfdisk lists four empty partitions. Each one starts at
cylinder 0 but the last cylinder line just has three
dashes '---'. The <c,h,s> part indicates 0 cyls, 64
sects, 32 secs/track. O cyls? That's not right,
surely.
At the end of all this info is:
'read: input/output error-cannot read sector 0' and
'unrecognized partition table type'
An attempt at dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512
count=1 found no such address.
mkdosfs -F16 -I /dev/sdb resulted in 'Attempting to
create a too large filesystem'
Attempts to mount the thing result in 'can't read
superblock'
Each of these commands take about 10 mins to complete.
Seems way to long to me, and I have a fairly fast
system w/1 G RAM, but this is my first experience with
these types of devices.
Is is time to give up, tell the owner he needs a new
HD?
-mw
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