mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

I lost my ability to mount and external USB mirror drive because "FIFO
stuck": 

  # mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /media/mirror
  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

In /var/log/kern.log:

  kernel: usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using address 5
  kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  kernel:   Vendor: Maxtor 4  Model: D040H2 Rev: DAH0
  kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  kernel: SCSI device sdc: 80043264 512-byte hdwr sectors (40982 MB)
  kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
  kernel:  /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
  kernel: Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 5
  kernel: parport0: FIFO is stuck
  kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio
  kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1.
  kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1.
  kernel: parport0: FIFO is stuck
  teufel kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio

  $ lsmod | grep parport
  parport_pc             36900  1 
  parport                41800  2 lp,parport_pc

I'm running kernel 2.6.8-2-686 with sarge. I was able to mount the
drive before, and have not changed anything.

  $ ls -l /dev/sdb1
  brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 17 Jul 31 18:54 /dev/sdb1

  # cat /etc/group | grep disk
  disk:x:6:

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       Haines Brown
       KB1GRM