Problems with SanDisk USB stick 2316

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:59:08 GMT, Steven Jones staggered into the Black Sun and said:

OK, that's weird. What happens if you leave it mounted? If it's plugged in all the time, is there any reason to umount it?

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Right, did you umount the device and fsck it? This is not something you should be seeing.

Is this a vanilla kernel, or a distro-patched kernel? I've seen far too many weird problems with distro-patched kernels to trust them for anything other than getting the system up and running.

I mean the output from lsusb. It's possible the device is weird in some way, and it isn't in your kernel's unusual-devs.h file yet.

??? What sort of backup strategy depends on a filesystem's features? Does a DLT or DDS tape have a filesystem on it? Read the Unix Backup and Recovery HOWTO, and the info page for tar, before you go any further. Also check out partimage.

See above paragraph. And there's something wrong with this device or your kernel's handling of this device. Zorch it and mkdosfs -F32 it, then see if the errors reoccur when the thing's FAT32. If they do, you've probably got a hardware problem. If not, the solution is obvious--tar and split your backups. HTH,

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