[vox-tech] USB mass storage trouble (7-in-one flash reader)

[Mark K. Kim]

My reader sometimes flakes out, too.  I have to unload all USB Modules
then reload them back.

BTW, have you tried sdb1, sdc1, sdd1, etc?  You got SEVEN places to plug
things in (since it's a 7-in-1 card) and they're usually not all on sda1.

-Mark


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Henry House wrote:

> I've acquired a USB-2.0 seven-in-one flash card reader-writer. Remarkably,
> the scanty accompanying manual clains that the device is supported by Linux
> =>2.4.0. Unfortunately I cannot get it to work. With kernel 2.4.24 running on
> the Linux box and a smartmedia wafer in the drive, I get this result when
> trying to read a partition table from the flash card:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
> Current 00:00: sns = 70  2
> ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> Current sd00:00: sns = 70  2
> ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
>  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
> Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
> sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
> Current 00:00: sns = 70  2
> ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> Current sd00:00: sns = 70  2
> ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x10 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
>  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
>
> The power LED on the drive is on at a steadt green; the access LED is off
> (and never flickered). The card in the drive is known to be non-defective and
> has a filesystem.
>
> I have the following modules loaded (obvioiusly irrelevant mods ommitted):
>
> sg                     23972   0 (unused)
> vfat                    9116   0 (autoclean)
> fat                    28888   0 (autoclean) [vfat]
> sd_mod                  9948   0
> usb-storage           112064   0
> scsi_mod               52476   3 [sg sd_mod usb-storage]
> usb-ohci               15712   0 (unused)
> usbcore                60576   0 [usb-storage usb-ohci]
> af_packet              11528   0 (unused)
> rtc                     5948   0 (autoclean)
>
> The USB interface is recognized according to dmesg.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
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