Reformat USB Mass Storage mp3 player
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.
If anyone thinks otherwise and can offer an help it would be appreciated.
TIA
Wackojacko
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