USB drive destroyed by Linux?
Hi,
I have here USB drive which when attached to the USB port yesterday created
this in /var/log/messages (slightly reformatted for this message, but
nothing was removed):
kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcda and address 2
kernel: usb 2-1: Product: Flash Disk
kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: USB
kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: BA0304404D7F3E1C
kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb.agent[5189]: usb-storage: loaded successfully
kernel: Vendor: JetFlash Model: TS64MJF2B Rev: 2.00
kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
kernel: : Current: sense key: Unit Attention
kernel: Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
kernel: SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
kernel: SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
kernel: sda: unknown partition table
scsi.agent[5279]: sd_mod: loaded sucessfully (for disk)
kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Unfortunately, as of today, the drive has refused to work -- both under
Linux as well as with Windows (both 98 and XP Home). Even when inserted to
Windows, the LED control is just still off and under Linux nothing lands in
any /var/log/ file (of course, mount ends with failure -- /dev/sda doesn't
exist). I didn't do anything strange with the drive -- just copying some
files back and forth between two computers. Is it possible that the drive
just dies without any apparent reason? Does it happen often to USB drives?
Thanks for any reply,
Matej
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