LifeDrive and T|X not seen by hal

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Matt Behrens wrote:
> The Palm LifeDrive, which I have, and presumably also the Palm T|X,
> which I don't, have a "Drive Mode" function that effectively turns them
> into a USB hard drive.
> 
> However, I don't think hal sees these drives as Palm seems to have a
> funny idea of what a FAT32 filesystem should look like.  At the very
> least, there is no backup FAT.

The FS probing is handled by libvolume_id, which is part of udev. It 
sounds like it's failing to identify the filesystem properly, probably 
due to the bizarreness in the FAT you've described. A quick check of the 
test image you provided seems to suggest that it's entirely missing the 
normal signatures, so the failure is kind of unsurprising. I'll take a 
quick look at the "specs" (such as they are for FAT) and see if there's 
an obvious fix that won't lead to false positives.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org