Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 12/30/04

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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:36:35 -0600

    On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:18 -0500, H. S. wrote:
    > Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 19:05,typed:
    > > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:40 -0500, H. S. wrote:
    > >
    > >>I have this Kingston Data Traveller 256MB USB stick that I am trying out
    > >>on my Linux boxes and am facing some problem. The stick worked properly
    > >>in WinXP and showed no errors.
    > >>
    > >>I have used other sticks (Lexar) and digital cameras and CF card readers
    > >>without any problem on Debian Sid and Debian Sarge. But this Kingston
    > >>flash usb stick gives these error messages in /var/log/syslog when I
    > >>plug it in. Any suggestions?
    > >>#----------------------------------------------------------------
    > >>
    > >>/USR/SBIN/CRON[17264]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
    > >>kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4
    > >>kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
    > >>kernel: Vendor: Kingston Model: DataTraveler 2.0 Rev: 4.10
    > >>kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    > >>kernel: SCSI device sda: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
    > >
    > > [snip]
    > >
    > >>kernel: XFS: bad magic number
    > >>kernel: XFS: SB validate failed
    > >
    > >
    > > Hardware problem?
    > >
    >
    > That is what I am suspecting. Any way to verify if the device is really
    > corrupted or some sectors are just bad?

    Yes, you could try formatting it with ext2, for example, to see
    what happens.

    "mkfs -c" would help with that.

    > And, er, why would windows be happy with it?

    Less error checking? 

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