Another SanDisk USB Mini Cruzer problem

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Thu Apr 15 18:59:53 UTC 2004


I have a SanDisk Mini Cruzer 128MB USB key that won't work in Fedora
Core 1.  I get this when I plug it into my IBM Thinkpad T40 (USB2):

Apr 15 11:06:53 fc1 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-1.2, assigned
address 8
Apr 15 11:06:53 fc1 kernel: usb.c: USB device 8 (vend/prod 0x781/0x7100)
is not claimed by any active driver.
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
devices
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel:   Vendor: Generic   Model: STORAGE DEVICE   
Rev: 1.02
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access     ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr
sectors (131 MB)
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel:  sda: sda1
Apr 15 11:06:56 fc1 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
                                                                                Now when I try `mount /dev/sda1 temp/`, it sits for a few minutes, and finally returns this:  'mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device', and /var/log/messages has this:

                                                                                
Apr 15 11:07:57 fc1 kernel: hub.c: USB device not accepting new address
(error=-71)
Apr 15 11:08:02 fc1 kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not
implemented
Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error
recover failed: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code =
6050000
Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended
sense 0
Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel:  unable to read partition table
Apr 15 11:08:13 fc1 devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
                                                                                I have had some success at formatting these types of key in Linux, but fdisk doesn't show sda at all (it cannot read the partition table).  I tried the key on FC2test2, where I could fdisk it.  But I still could not mount it on either OS.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Forrest






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