Subject: Re: USB memory reporting "fabricating a geometry"
To: Claes Leufven <rinsan@lysator.liu.se>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/01/2005 15:42:34
Claes Leufven said:

>5 partitions:
>#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> d:   2035200         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -    993*)
> e:   2035147        53      MSDOS                     # (Cyl.      0*-    993*)
>disklabel: boot block size 0
>disklabel: super block size 0
>
>But when I try to mount (mount /dev/sd0e /mnt) it gives me this error message
>
>mount_msdos: /dev/sd0e on /mnt: Invalid argument

>and in this appears in my dmesg
>
>sd0: fabricating a geometry
>sd0: fabricating a geometry

I had a similar experience recently and I was able to mount the device
using sd0d rather than sd0e.

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