USB Pen Drive Crisis

[Adam Cooper]

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