Re: Kingstron Data Traveller giving Buffer I/O error

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _Ron Johnson_, on 29/12/04 19:05,typed:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:40 -0500, H. S. wrote:
>
> > I have this Kingston Data Traveller 256MB USB stick that I am trying out 
> > on my Linux boxes and am facing some problem. The stick worked properly 
> > in WinXP and showed no errors.
> >
> > I have used other sticks (Lexar) and digital cameras and CF card readers 
> > without any problem on Debian Sid and Debian Sarge. But this Kingston 
> > flash usb stick gives these error messages in /var/log/syslog when I 
> > plug it in. Any suggestions?
> > #----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > /USR/SBIN/CRON[17264]: (root) CMD (   run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
> > kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 4
> > kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> > kernel:   Vendor: Kingston  Model: DataTraveler 2.0  Rev: 4.10
> > kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > kernel: SCSI device sda: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
>
> [snip]
>
> > kernel: XFS: bad magic number
> > kernel: XFS: SB validate failed
>
>
> Hardware problem?

That is what I am suspecting. Any way to verify if the device is really 
corrupted or some sectors are just bad?

And, er, why would windows be happy with it?

->HS

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