Aaron -- What kernel version? I am on 2.5.68 and on occasion have to reboot, yes I said reboot linux, in order to fix problems accessing my usb memory drive. I am hoping that this silliness is fixed in the 2.6 series.
-TacticalJack On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 04:50, Aaron Walker wrote: > 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: > > -- > 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 > -- > > > anyone know why this isn't working? > > Thanks, > Aaron > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- It is vital to remember that information is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. - Arthur C Clarke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
