[gentoo-user] USB thumb drive weirdness

[Aaron Walker]

I have a Memorex 128MB USB ThumbDrive that I got a couple months ago.  I 
hadn't even used it until earlier today.  I had checked last week to see 
if it worked and everything.  Had no problems mounting it.  I did the 
following to test it:

# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
# nano /mnt/usb/lala
typed a a few "lala" sentences
saved it and rebooted to windows to see if I could read it.. worked fine.
At work last night, I saved the paper I had been working on, to the 
thumb drive.  Then, just now, I mounted it and tried to save it again, 
because I had updated the file, and I get:

"cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/usb/essay.sxw': Read-only file system"

mount says its mounted as rw and the kernel log says:

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Jan 29 05:26:54 [kernel] hub 1-0:1.0: new USB device on port 2, assigned
address 3
Jan 29 05:26:54 [kernel] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
devices
Jan 29 05:26:54 [kernel] SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors
(131 MB)
Jan 29 05:26:54 [kernel] sda: assuming Write Enabled
Jan 29 05:26:54 [kernel] WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not
assured
Jan 29 05:26:54 [kernel] USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Jan 29 05:26:59 [kernel] request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe --
nls_iso8859-1. error = 256
Jan 29 05:27:39 [kernel] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
                - Last output repeated 9 times -
Jan 29 05:28:38 [kernel] FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sda1)
Jan 29 05:29:09 [kernel] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
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anyone know why this isn't working?

Thanks,
Aaron
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