{"id":141,"date":"2010-09-29T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T06:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-11-03T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:26:35","slug":"ps3-and-usb-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/ps3-and-usb-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Playstation 3, USB backup, and error 80010006…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long time I decided to backup my Playstation 3. All I would need to connect a FAT32-formatted USB drive, and go to “System settings”\/”Backup” in the PS3 menu. Easy? Right..<\/p>\n

However, trying with two different USB drives, I got error 80010006 shortly after the backup had started. I could manually copy videos and game settings to the same drive so I did not understand what could have been wrong. After a little Googling, I found out that PS3 might be somewhat picky on how the USB drive is formatted. I used Mac OS X (10.6) to partition and format the drive to “MS-DOS” format (i.e. FAT32). It seems that PS3 does not like FAT32 drives formatted with a Mac. So, I booted up my Ubuntu PC and formatted one of the USB drives there (used system type 0x0c<\/code> (W95 FAT32 (LBA)) instead of 0x0b<\/code> (W95 FAT32)<\/strong>). And then it just worked…<\/p>\n

So, it goes approximately like this (of course you may have a different device name and fdisk menus, but you get the idea):<\/p>\n

\r\n# fdisk \/dev\/sdb\r\n\r\nCommand (m for help): n\r\nCommand action\r\n   e   extended\r\n   p   primary partition (1-4)\r\np\r\nPartition number (1-4): 1\r\nFirst cylinder (1-12161, default 1): \r\nUsing default value 1\r\nLast cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-12161, default 12161): \r\nUsing default value 12161\r\n\r\nCommand (m for help): p\r\n\r\nDisk \/dev\/sdb: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes\r\n255 heads, 63 sectors\/track, 12161 cylinders\r\nUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nDisk identifier: 0x00000000\r\n\r\n   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System\r\n\/dev\/sdb1               1       12161    97683201   83  Linux\r\n\r\nCommand (m for help): t\r\nSelected partition 1\r\nHex code (type L to list codes): c\r\nChanged system type of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))\r\n\r\nCommand (m for help): p\r\n\r\nDisk \/dev\/sdb: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes\r\n255 heads, 63 sectors\/track, 12161 cylinders\r\nUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nDisk identifier: 0x00000000\r\n\r\n   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System\r\n\/dev\/sdb1               1       12161    97683201    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)\r\n\r\nCommand (m for help): w\r\nThe partition table has been altered!\r\n\r\nCalling ioctl() to re-read partition table.\r\n\r\nWARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x\r\npartitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional\r\ninformation.\r\nSyncing disks.\r\n\r\n# mkfs.vfat -v \/dev\/sdb1\r\nmkfs.vfat 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)\r\nAuto-selecting FAT32 for large filesystem\r\n\/dev\/sdb1 has 255 heads and 63 sectors per track,\r\nlogical sector size is 512,\r\nusing 0xf8 media descriptor, with 195366402 sectors;\r\nfile system has 2 32-bit FATs and 32 sectors per cluster.\r\nFAT size is 47674 sectors, and provides 6102219 clusters.\r\nVolume ID is 3d0a6e1a, no volume label.\r\n<\/pre>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a long time I decided to backup my Playstation 3. All I would need to connect a FAT32-formatted USB drive, and go to “System settings”\/”Backup” in the PS3 menu. Easy? Right.. However, trying with two different USB drives, I got error 80010006 shortly after the backup had started. I could manually copy videos and … <\/p>\n
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