Sorry bout half the mail you just got(*alt-enter shortkey confusion*)
Thanks again for the swift answer.
fdisk -l /dev/sdb tells me the following:
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Platte /dev/sdb: 501 MByte, 501219328 Byte
16 Köpfe, 32 Sektoren/Spuren, 1912 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 512 × 512 = 262144 Bytes
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1938 496112+ 6 FAT16
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cat /proc/partitions:
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cat /proc/partitions | grep sdb
8 16 489472 sdb
8 17 496112 sdb1
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Am Sonntag, den 21.08.2005, 11:46 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gian Ghodrat wrote:
>
> > Allow me one last question though, do you think the second set of error
> > messages, i posted here, the
> >
> > #######################################################################
> > printk: 6 messages suppressed.
> > Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 978871
> > lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
> > #######################################################################
> >
> > kind of thing, is also related to the udev vol_id application (which as
> > it seems should do nothing more than probe for a device name)?
>
> Since vol_id is supposed to run only when the device is plugged in, this
> probably is not related to it. But what is causing that error is not
> clear. What does "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" show, and what does /proc/partitions
> contain?
>
> > After several tests filling the mp3 player and deleting and so on this
> > error message seems to show up when the real damage is done to the
> > filesystem.
>
> It's suspicious that the block number is so close to the end of the
> partition. It could be that you have filled the device up completely, or
> that it claims to have more sectors than it really does have.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
>
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