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How to mount fat32 usb flash drive on 10.6.8?

Hello there,


I've read many posts about this problem but they don't work for me.

I've a Kingstone flash drive 16GB that I use mainly to record videos from a Digital terrestrial tuner box or to watch vieos from internet on my videoprojector.

It used to work fine, then I re formatted it on the DTV box and recorded a couple of programs with the tuner and they show up correctly, but once connected to my iMac mid2011 usb port or MBPro I'm asked to initialize the drive or ignore, eject.

- It doesn't show up in DiskUtility.

- It does show up in System Profiler:

DT R500:

Capacity: 15.99 GB (15,988,686,848 bytes)

Removable Media: Yes

Detachable Drive: Yes

BSD Name: disk1

Product ID: 0x1654

Vendor ID: 0x0951 (Kingston Technology Company)

Version: 1.00

Serial Number:

Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Kingston

Location ID: 0xfd130000 / 6

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 300

Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record)

S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported

Volumes:

Capacity: 15.99 GB (15,988,654,080 bytes)

Writable: Yes

BSD Name: disk1s1


- It does show up with mount command in Terminal:

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk1

1: Windows_FAT_32 16.0 GB disk1s1


- Tried to make a dir and then mount but with no success:

sh-3.2# mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Kingstone/

mount_msdos: /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/Kingstone: Invalid argument


I just need to copy the recorded files and then format again the flash drive.

Any suggestion?


Thank you in advance!

Piero

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 21.5" Mid 2011 8GB ram

Posted on May 14, 2013 6:54 PM

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6 replies

May 15, 2013 7:38 AM in response to Lanny

Yes, of course.

Yesterday I even tried to plug it to an old powerbook with tiger to see, as somebody was saying, if did work on ppc hw... but no news!


But also, I'm not a unix expert, what does it mean: " mount_msdos: /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/Kingstone: Invalid argument" What ius invalid? msdos argument?

May 15, 2013 10:13 AM in response to Lanny

"DTV box may not have formatted properly" --> I'd suspect something like that too...

FAT32 is limited to file size of 4GB actually (minus one byte).

In my experience you can copy a larger file to a FAT32 volume, let's say a video file, but when the copying process is finished, you notice the size is 4GB, and when you play the video it ends abruptly at this point.


(another limit is limited file name length and limited use of characters in the filename. A slash for instance is not allowed.)



Piero, did you try to connect your flash drive to a windows machine?

May 16, 2013 8:58 AM in response to piero

Thank you for your thoughts!


So you're saying that if the DTV box formatted it not properly, it can't be mounted on a Mac even if it still works on the Box, reading and recording?


So there is no way to extract the files (video_ts)?


No A-C I have no Vindovs around except the ones with the glass... 😉


Should I try with a fil recovery sw?

How to mount fat32 usb flash drive on 10.6.8?

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