weird partition map and DMS issues

[danix]

First off, thanks for these 3rd party tools.  It makes owning obsolete hardware much more pleasant

I have a VW with stock 20Gb DMS.  Recently it started acting up (wouldn't find the DMS/changer) so I went looking for the latest tools, ran a check on the DMS, and went back to the car.  Nothing.
Then I redid the DMS, added new firmware, went back to the car.  it booted, played tracks 1 and 2 (told me it would apply updates and I should keep returning to this) and did it a few times until finally the changer became greyed out.

I tried again, same effect.  Took out my spare phatbox, did the same thing (not visible to radio).
OK.  Hooked up the DMS to my linux box, it mounts fine.  Ran fdisk and cleared the partitions.  Connected it back to the windows laptop, made a new DMS, and still same effect.  Weird.

Only thing I notice is odd is the partition map.  Is this normal?

root@togo:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdh

Disk /dev/sdh: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 19077 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1de02510

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdh1               2          65       65536    b  W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdh2              66       19079    19469504    5  Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdh5              66       19079    19469503+   b  W95 FAT32

I don't mind buying a laptop drive to stick in the DMS shell if that's the problem, as I was planning on it anyway.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[danix]

Followup - I tried again with "flash non-hacked firmware" based on a post I saw on a similar topic.
On both phatboxes, it will show a solid red light, and a rapidly (roughly 1.5/sec) flashing green light.
The changer still does not "appear" to the head unit.

Thoughts, suggestions?  This is not urgent but I'd appreciate some guidance.

[sbingner]

it sounds like it's trying to do a firmware update... did you not uncheck update firmware?  just leave it 10 mins or so and see if it clears up.

The partition table looks fine