Another SanDisk USB Mini Cruzer problem
Brian Gaynor
briang at pmccorp.com
Thu Apr 15 20:30:43 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:59, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> 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 11:08:12 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
I had similar problems with a San Disk Mini Cruzer (256MB) until I recompiled
the stock Fedora kernel with "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" enabled (look
under SCSI options). After that I had no problems mounting and using as a
VFAT partition (so I could also read it under Windows).
Brian
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