[ale] MP3 player busted?

[Chris Fowler]

I'm baffled

$ dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=sdd1
$ mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
$ cp /tmp/music.mp3 /mnt
$ umount /mnt
$ mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
$ mplayer /mnt/music.mp3 # works
$ umount /mnt
$ dd if=sdd1 of=/dev/sdd1
$ mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
$ mplayer /mnt/music.mp3 # corrupt

Now what is weird is that the other files can be played!!!!  They were
not corrupted.  It is as the mp3 player decided to corrupt music.mp3



On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 10:24 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 10:04 -0400, Warren Myers wrote:
> > My *guess* is that mplayer may still have an open handle to the file.
> > 
> > I forget the call to lsof off the top of my head, but does that
> > indicate mplayer holding anything open on the mp3 player?
> 
> There are no open handles because I've terminated mplayer before I did
> the umount.
> 
> There is no way to format it in the device either.
> 
> What I'm going to try is to dd the flash onto my desktop and add files
> to the image.  I'll dd it back onto the MP3 player.  If this fails then
> I'll trash it and buy another cheap player.
> 
> 
> 
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