From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:39:39 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Brian King wrote:

> What is in /var/log/messages? If the fat32 driver encounters fatal errors
> reading the fat it will set the partition read only to prevent someone from
> potentially corrupting it.

> I've encountered this before (usually after a few hot unplugs of the USB
> cable) and ended up formatting the drive to make it work properly again.
> (remember the -F 32 option to mkdosfs...)

Ah, *dang*. Thanks. Right on target. I got quite a few error messages there:

[start snip]

Apr 6 14:53:44 localhost kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 08:01).
Apr 6 14:53:44 localhost kernel: FAT error
Apr 6 14:53:44 localhost kernel: File system has been set read-only
Apr 6 14:53:44 localhost kernel: Directory 5515: bad FAT
Apr 6 14:54:08 localhost kernel: 8:01: rw=0, want=1182836230, limit=19535008
Apr 6 14:54:08 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Apr 6 14:54:08 localhost kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=1182836230,
limit=19535008
Apr 6 14:54:08 localhost kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

[end of snip]

... and my various new attempts showed new errors in the same style, only
mentioning different directory numbers (whatever they mean).

Does anyone know what the 'want' and 'limit' parameters mean?

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- Hacking Archos => http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/

Received on 2002-04-07