[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

Marek McGann m.mcgann at sussex.ac.uk
Wed Jul 28 17:00:19 IST 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:03, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> >   Vendor: PHILIPS   Model: Key Ring (128MB)  Rev: 0001
> >   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > SCSI device sda: 256001 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
> > sda: assuming Write Enabled
> > sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> >  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:end_request: I/O error, dev sda,
> > sector 256000
> > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 256000
> 
> Doh take it back ... it's broken!
> 

Damn. I suspect Philips have just done something to make it immensely
linux-unfriendly. It works perfectly under Windows.

That's a pain.




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