Bug 97073
| Summary: | Files written to some MP3 players using the FAT filesystem strangely disappear. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Eric Enright <sauron> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | alan |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:41:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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In 2.4.20-ac since pre8 so this may be ok in the current errata kernel Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 Description of problem: This problem fixed in linux-2.5.40, but worthy of note: From the 2.5.40 ChangeLog: <hirofumi.co.jp> [PATCH] use fff/ffff/fffffff instead of ff8/fff8/ffffff8 for EOF of FAT On FAT12, the current FAT driver recognizes 0xff8-0xfff as EOF, and it writes in 0xff8 as EOF. This is right behavior. However, the firmware of some MP3-Players recognize only 0xfff (standard EOF which Micorsoft uses) as EOF. So, we write 0xfff instead of 0xff8 as EOF, until the reason we need values other than standard EOF is found. ------------- Anyone wishing to use one of these MP3 players (mine is the RCA/Thomson Lyra 1021A), must either upgrade to kernel 2.5.40 or later, or patch their own (/usr/src/linux/include/linux/msdos_fs.h) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount the device. 2. Copy files and umount. 3. Disconnect device. Actual Results: Any files copied "disappeared" from the device. Expected Results: Hear the tracks in my headphones ;) Additional info: