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thessy is offline thessy
2010-06-30 , 06:54
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Hi all,

have the problem on my n900 (Maemo 5 Version 10.2010.19-1) that a ext3 formatted microsd is not recognised, with hint "card is damaged". Thats not right, it is working like a charme on a desktop linux system and same card formatted with vfat is recognised in n900.

cat /proc/filesystems shows 'ext3' as supported filesystem. Any hint what the problem could be? Am I missing any piece of software?

Thnx in advance
Thomas aka thessy
 
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2010-06-30 , 07:22
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Its just a guess, as I've not tried it on my N900, but what i you have two partitions, the first being a small FAT32 partition, and the rest being an ext3 partition?
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2010-06-30 , 07:35
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Yes, the first partition on your microSD card needs to be FAT or N900 won't recognize it.
 
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2010-06-30 , 11:15
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Made 8 MB vfat partition (primary) and with the rest of the 8 gb an ext3 partition (primary). The first is recognised, the second not. Because of the second primary partition?

Why the hell does a linux system need a first fat32 partiton to recognise an ext3 one at all?

Thanx...
Thomas aka thessy
 
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