On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Miernik wrote: > I recently bought 2 different USB flash disks. These are some cheap no-name > devices. Their parameters: > > bytes C/H/S ID > 4194304512 509/255/63 Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Drive Rev: > 1.00 ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > 4288676352 1023/132/62 Vendor: USB Model: USB 2.0 Rev: > 1.00 ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > When I put a FAT32 filesystem on them, everything is OK, but when I put an > ext3 > filesystem, everything is OK when I write files to the disk, I can fill it > with > files, but then when I remove the disk from the computer (after a proper > umount) and putting it in again, most of the files have corrupted direcotry > entries (they look red in midnight commander, some of them pink). But some > (about 5 to 10%) files are normal, and normally accessible. > > I tried them both on two completely different computers with very different > hardware, and different Linux versions, and the effect is the same. > > One of the computers is a desktop with and old AMD K7 Clayton motherboard with > only old USB1.1: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller, and Debian sid with > 2.6.18-4-k7 kernel from Debian. > > The other computer is a much newer AMD Athlon64 HP laptop with USB2.0 port and > SuSE 10.2. > > Did anyone observe anything similar with any USB flash drives (FAT OK, ext3 > corrupted)?
What makes you think the FAT filesystems are okay? Did you run dosfsck on them? Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
