Bug#430941: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: no-name USB 2.0 flash drive gets "unknown partition table" until BLKRRPART ioctl is issued

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 04:56:25PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> submitter 430941 smcv@debian.org
> found 430941 2.6.26-12
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 at 23:19:18 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 06:16:40PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 at 16:28:15 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > > > I have a cheap USB stick (an Integral 512M USB2.0 stick, specifically)
> > > > > which appears with "unknown partition table" when inserted. If the
> > > > > BLKRRPART ioctl is issued, the partition table is re-read correctly,
> > > > > /dev/sdx1 appears, HAL activates and the stick is auto-mounted correctly.
> ...
> > Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?
> 
> The error still occurs in linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-12.
> (I haven't seen it with any other USB sticks, though, only the one that
> originally exhibited this error, which is ludicrously small by current
> standards.)

Does this still occur with Squeeze?

Cheers,
        Moritz