OSX kills m6 - fat related

Wbdsgnr

Heey people,
For those whose library turns up empty, try checking and repairing the fat filesystem in windows or linux(fsck.vfat).

My problem: My meizu M6 doesn't show up in OSX. When I try accessing it with diskutil it can't be mounted. The little usb arrows on the player are always rotating so it does seem to do something. After disconnecting again my player tries to reconstruct the library which in turn show's up emtpy. After checking the filesystem for errors in linux/windows a few errors show up, are fixed and my player works again. So where in all this are things going wrong? Doesn't meizu comply to fat32 specs, does osx try to index the drive or something.. i'm confused. Anybody any idea's? I'm trying to shorten any seemingly long filepaths and stuff.. but i'm kinda out of ideas. Manually mounting the drive in OSX doesn't work either, just gives me an "invalid argument" error using "mount -t msdos /dev/disk1 /mountdir"
I'm using meizu M6 SP 8GB with FW 2004.6

cklitgaard

Hi there mate, I have the same problem - how did you solve it again? eg. which errors did you get in the windowstest and how did you repair them?
- Thanks

miku_eu

I'm probably having the same problem. OSX trashes M6, with both Meizu and Emgeton firmwares. USB icon just circles around and after disconnecting Update Music Library stays on indefinitely. After that the player becomes unusable and has to be formatted, with preferably new firmware installation

Linux sees the player immediately and gives no headaches. At the moment I'm using Emgeton firmware. FLAC playback is incredible - when the player works. But for now I can't even connect the player to my Mac...

My Meizu is M6 SL, firmware Emgeton 2004.6

Wbdsgnr

@cklitgaard
Actually I just did scandisk (right mouse click on drive -> properties -> scandisk) it doesn't give any errors, just reports some errors have been fixed. In linux I do get some errors about root clusters and I don't know what

I haven't been able to fix the problem yet.. i'll let ya know when I find a solution

realisticdropcard

eh, os x is worse than os 9


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quebert

This might be related to the recent update to OS X. Some people with iAudio 7s have reported issues with connecting their player to OS X since the 10.5.3 update. I hope this is resolved by Apple in the 10.5.4 update due in July.

Wbdsgnr

Who knows... I got it working in the end.
These are the steps I did:

- Backup data from M6
- Let M6 Format itself
- Let M6 Low-Format itself -> reload resource file
- Format M6 to FAT32 in windows, gave drivename MINI
- Copy content back in OSX

I tried formatting to FAT in OSX itself, but this crashed my M6 once more.. So about compatibility:

Columns: Formatted by
Rows: Readble by

........OSX...WIN....M6.
OSX...X.....YES....NOT
WIN..YES....X......YES
M6....NOT..YES.....X..

I skipped Linux in the process.

quebert

Thank you for reporting back with what worked for you. I've formatted my M6 with Windows now, and when I get home from work I'll try it with my Mac, and also report.
You've been a big help!

seb9

Mh should have read that before, I just set up Mac os X new und installed 10.5.2 didn´t like .3 anyway. Diablo II isn´t working anymore and there is nothing worse in 10.5.2 than in 10.5.3 (for me), so i´l wait with the next update till it´s really necessary)

quebert

Thank you Wbdsgnr. I have now successfully connected my M6 to my Mac following your instructions.