Re: Reformat USB Mass Storage mp3 player
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:23:45AM +0100, Wackojacko wrote:
> My daughter's 64mb Mini-k mp3 player has just died and giving an error
> 'reformat to FAT16'. Neither fdisk or parted will access the drive
> giving i/o read and unable to read partition table errors. Tried
> googling without success/
>
>
> dmesg gives the follwoing when the device is plugged in.
>
>
> usb 2-6: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
> scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 5
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> Vendor: Digital Model: MP3 Music Player Rev: 0100
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
> : Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> Additional sense: Logical unit failure
> Info fld=0x0
> sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
> sd: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> Additional sense: Logical unit failure
> Info fld=0x0
> sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>
> <snip repeated sensing errors>
>
> /dev/scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0:<4>printk: 68 messages suppressed.
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
> ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
> unable to read partition table
> Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
>
> I'm assuming this means the hardware has failed.
I'm afraid that's right.
I sometimes experienced similar errors with usb storage devices when connected
via a usb hub, sometimes even an additional cable. So you could try to plug it
into the usb port directly. If that doesn't work, I have no idea.
>
> If anyone thinks otherwise and can offer an help it would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Wackojacko
HTH
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Joachim Fahnenmüller
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