USB Pen Drive Crisis

Adam Cooper adam.cooper at port.ac.uk
Tue Mar 9 09:24:14 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 09:33, Adam Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 21:44, Mikko Huhtala wrote:
> > Have you updated your kernel by any chance? USB storage support for
> > some drives is broken in early 2.6 kernels and many 2.4 kernels, too
> > (mine does not work with stock 2.4.23 but does work with a Fedora
> > kernel). This is the error you'd get with a buggy kernel. (I have no
> > idea about recovering data from physically broken USB flash drives,
> > sorry.)
> > 
> > Mikko
> 
> Funnily enough my MP3 Player/USB Drive has started to do this whereas it
> worked before. (Before being, before I installed kernel 2.6 from
> Aranjv).
> 
> It's definitely not the device since it plays music fine and mounts on
> windows boxes.
> 
> Are there any fixes for this?
> 
> Thanks for the help
> Adam
> 

Are there any fixes? Or will I have to start running 2.4 again.

Cheers 
Adam





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