[iyonix-support] Re: MP 3 Player - Error Message

  • From: Matthew Thompson <mt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:43:10 GMT

In message <47A90F34.4010103@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Kade Hansson <kade.hansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Matthew Thompson wrote:
>> I looked on the internet for information about this player and it says
>> requires no software and works by simply dragging and dropping files !
>> sounds good I thought so i've just plugged it in to the Iyonix,
>> waiting and hoping, the Iconbar icon popped up for the device, yes it
>> works I thought , then I double clicked on the icon and was presented
>> with the following message -
>>
>> "Bad block size - must be 256/512/1024"
>> 
> If I had to guess, I'd say there's some nonsense in the boot block
> (probably 00s.) You could try overwriting it, but keep a copy for
> reference. The boot block has an Intel JMP instruction of 24 bits, 8
> bytes of other junk, and then the first 16 bit value is the block size
> (sector size.) This is almost always 512 (little endian.)

> Another possibility is that the boot block looks a bit ADFS-like, and
> its therefore not getting passed to DOSFS. You could try looking at the
> Resources:$.Resources.[ADFS|FileCore|DOSFS].Messages files to see which
> one produces the error "Bad block size - must be 256/512/1024". My
> Iyonix is not nearby.

How do I do this ?  I looked in !Boot.resources, but didn't see 
anythign that resembles the above, where should I look ?

cheers
Matthew


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