palsyboy
12-05-2005, 03:38 AM
I've been successfully using (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142629) my SanDisk SDMX1 for a few months now and generally enjoy it.
On the bad side, though, its memory has been eaten twice. Both times this happened was when a GUI-based file transfer stalled indefinitely, and I couldn't unmount the device via Kubuntu's Storage Media applet. I finally just had to unplug it from the USB drive. Afterwards, the device listed its available memory as ~950 MB, when it used to read as almost a full gigabyte; this was true even though it held no files at the time, and its config file (settings.dat) was only a few kilobytes in size. I didn't worry about it too much, as most of my mixes are just under 900 MB. However, the exact same thing happened again, and the device now lists its available memory as the following:
"Total: 1 GB
Used 165 MB
Free: 835 MB"
I'm guessing the filesystem is borked, so I tried to format the device as FAT32 using fdisk. I fdisk'd it as its proper /dev/sdeX address, and fdisk said that it had successfully written to the partition table, etc. Yet at no point did the device flash its display LED to indicate USB activity, and its memory remained the same. Apparently, settings.dat was intact, too, as all my user-specific settings remained.
I've tried to use gparted and similar utilties, but they don't even see the device. Perhaps it's because of Kubuntu's funky "/media/devicename" way of doing things.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to restore my device? If I can find someone with a Windows machine, I may have to swallow my pride and ask them to use it for its formatting ability.
On the bad side, though, its memory has been eaten twice. Both times this happened was when a GUI-based file transfer stalled indefinitely, and I couldn't unmount the device via Kubuntu's Storage Media applet. I finally just had to unplug it from the USB drive. Afterwards, the device listed its available memory as ~950 MB, when it used to read as almost a full gigabyte; this was true even though it held no files at the time, and its config file (settings.dat) was only a few kilobytes in size. I didn't worry about it too much, as most of my mixes are just under 900 MB. However, the exact same thing happened again, and the device now lists its available memory as the following:
"Total: 1 GB
Used 165 MB
Free: 835 MB"
I'm guessing the filesystem is borked, so I tried to format the device as FAT32 using fdisk. I fdisk'd it as its proper /dev/sdeX address, and fdisk said that it had successfully written to the partition table, etc. Yet at no point did the device flash its display LED to indicate USB activity, and its memory remained the same. Apparently, settings.dat was intact, too, as all my user-specific settings remained.
I've tried to use gparted and similar utilties, but they don't even see the device. Perhaps it's because of Kubuntu's funky "/media/devicename" way of doing things.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to restore my device? If I can find someone with a Windows machine, I may have to swallow my pride and ask them to use it for its formatting ability.