Error reading pen drive

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:

> Can you post the output of "fdisk -l" with the drive plugged in?


The output of "fdisk -l" is (pen drive plugged in):

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        5737    46082421    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            5738       30400   198105547+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            5738        9561    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            9562       13385    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7           13386       15935    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8   *       15936       15961      204799+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9           15961       28596   101487615+  8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 99.7 GB, 99711188992 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12122 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 4211 MB, 4211081216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 511 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdb: 33.5 GB, 33554432000 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 32000 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

I don't but I guess the drive is having a small sector corrupted
inside it as the icon is getting displayed but other actions have been
restricted unknowingly!
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia