Another SanDisk USB Mini Cruzer problem

[James Kosin]

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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 11:06:53 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
|

Forrest,

fdisk only creates a partition.  Did you format the partition afterwards
and create a usable file system on it?

Lookup:  'man mkfs' ....

You also need to know what format the other device you are using it in
supports (camera, recorder, etc.)  Otherwise, you will end up with a
flash that is only readable by Linux boxes.

James

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