Re: 2.6.0-test9 VFAT problem

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:45:36AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Nov 14 09:19:51 coyote kernel: hub 3-2:1.0: new USB device on port 3, assigned address 9
> Nov 14 09:19:51 coyote kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Nov 14 09:19:52 coyote kernel:   Vendor: OLYMPUS   Model: C-3020ZOOM(U)     Rev: 1.00
> Nov 14 09:19:52 coyote kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Nov 14 09:19:52 coyote kernel: SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
> Nov 14 09:19:52 coyote kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> Nov 14 09:19:52 coyote kernel:  sda: sda1
> Nov 14 09:20:34 coyote kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda1)
> Nov 14 09:20:34 coyote kernel:     fat_free: deleting beyond EOF (i_pos 0)
> Nov 14 09:20:34 coyote kernel:     File system has been set read-only
> 
> Comments?  Screwed up kernel .config? Is mount "-t vfat" the 
> correct filesystem?

It would have been interesting to see the filesystem after this error message.
Can you reproduce the error?

(vfat? I don't know - most cameras just use msdos, but vfat doesnt harm,
I suppose)

The error message means that the fatfs followed a chain of clusters in order
to delete them all and found a free cluster before finding an end-of-file mark.

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