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fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) – FAT: Filesystem panic (dev

2008 July 26
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by Philippe Delodder

I used an SD memory card for both GPS and taking picuteres. But when I mounted it on my system I got these errors:

[ 90.767650] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev mmcblk0)
[ 90.767660] invalid access to FAT (entry 0x0000f59a)
[ 90.767667] File system has been set read-only
[ 42.252410] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev mmcblk0)
[ 42.252422] fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)
[ 42.266477] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev mmcblk0)
[ 42.266481] fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)

There is a solution fo it you can simple preform this command:

fsck.vfat /dev/mmcblk0 -a -w
but for me It took about 5 times after running this command before it was successfull but
at least I could copy and read everything from the memory card

7 Responses leave one →
  1. gerold permalink
    July 16, 2009

    fsck.vfat should be the name of the program?

    Thanks,
    Gerold

  2. July 17, 2009

    @gerold, thx for pointing it out, fixed the typo

  3. Manfred Overmeen permalink
    August 12, 2009

    Thanks for thefat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chainost, thix fixed my problem as well.

  4. Manfred Overmeen permalink
    August 12, 2009

    Thanks for post this fixed my problem as well….

  5. Wilson permalink
    December 30, 2009

    Extremely awesome!
    Thanks, it save me too, after I used TestDisk ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) to recreate boot sector and partition table (I recommend it too.)

  6. January 2, 2010

    Good post, amazing looking blog, added it to my favs!!

  7. Bigob permalink
    January 27, 2010

    This also worked for me. Thanks alot!!!!!

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