This is **probably** a hardware problem, but I'd like an opinion if I'm right.
I bought two USB MP3 players for my children. They both worked and we were able to transfer MP3s from the computer to the USB devices in both Win98 and Mandrake LINUX. After about an hour, my kids' Win98 machine crashed while transfering MP3s to one of the devices. I don't know if Win98 crashed the MP3 or if the MP3 crashed Win98 (the chicken and the egg), but now that device is no longer recognized by the computer. Here's what I get from "tail -f /var/log/messages" when connecting the **bad** device: Jan 2 17:42:47 shlomo1 kernel: usb 1-4.2: new full speed USB device using address 15 And I can't mount the device. Here's what I get from the **good** device: Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: usb 1-4.2: new full speed USB device using address 16 Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: scsi41 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: Vendor: Model: Rev: Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: SCSI device sdd: 972193 512-byte hdwr sectors (498 MB) Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: sdd: assuming drive cache: write through Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: /dev/scsi/host41/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi41, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi41, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Jan 2 17:44:31 shlomo1 scsi.agent[13513]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb1/1-4/1-4.2/1-4.2:1.0/host41/41:0:0:0 I am then able to mount the device as /dev/sdd. So, am I correct in assuming that this is a hardware problem, or is there something else I can try? BTW, the users manual suggests formatting in case of data corruption, but with no /dev being assigned, I have no way to do that. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
