Thread: My volvo car cannot read from my n900 over usb
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dieter_be is offline dieter_be
2010-06-30 , 12:35
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Indeed Aydan, what's up with that?
when I plug in the phone to my laptop, in dmesg I see I get a sdb and a sdc. Even though they have the same permissions, sdc cannot be opened (or listed) with fdisk. only sdb can. And because of this, only sdb can be mounted as fat filesystem. what is sdc? and can i get rid of it?

I will check the car manual to find out any limitations such as dotfiles/directories.
In the meanwhile, I wanted to share the (clean) output of an fsck:

Code:
dieter@dieter-dellD620-arch ~  sudo fsck -v /dev/sdb
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
dosfsck 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "Maemo"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     65536 bytes per cluster
       126 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 64512 (sector 126)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   1769984 bytes per FAT (= 3457 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 3604480 (sector 7040)
    442377 data clusters (28991619072 bytes)
32 sectors/track, 64 heads
         0 hidden sectors
  56631296 sectors total
Checking for unused clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
/dev/sdb: 4589 files, 226927/442377 clusters
dieter@dieter-dellD620-arch ~  echo $?
0
edit: wow, many posts at the same time
@Volt:
i have the "two devicefiles" every time i attach my n900 to my pc, not just the first time.
the usb connector is an option. I'll write down the exact error message this evening.
Last edited by dieter_be; 2010-06-30 at 12:37.