[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Marek McGann wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


It's probably more likely that Windows is just ignoring the error, which is 
bad, since how are you supposed to know when you have broken hardware, if it 
does that?



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