filed a bug report, re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-13 Thread whollygoat
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:43 -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB linked external enclosure using mkdosfs -c

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-11 Thread John Allen
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46 +, John Allen john.al...@dublinux.net wrote: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-10 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46 +, John Allen john.al...@dublinux.net wrote: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-08 Thread John Allen
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB linked external enclosure using mkdosfs -c /dev/sd{ag}1. I can report the same

mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-07 Thread whollygoat
Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB linked external enclosure using mkdosfs -c /dev/sd{ag}1. In both cases the process hung while checking for bad blocks.