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Bug 273013 (USBFlashDrive)

Summary: A flash drive I have will not mount - all others will
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Michael Sammels <michael.sammels>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal CC: michael.sammels
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: This is my dmesg log file
dmesg log with USB

Description Michael Sammels 2009-06-07 10:54:22 UTC
I have a few flash drives in my possession. All of them will mount fine, except one which refuses to mount. Instead, this refuses not to mount. I shall attempt to attach my dmesg log for you all to look at.
Comment 1 Michael Sammels 2009-06-07 10:56:32 UTC
Created attachment 193783 [details]
This is my dmesg log file
Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2009-06-07 16:11:04 UTC
1. This looks more like a support question than a bug.
2. Could you limit that log to just the lines printed
when you unplug the drive and plug it back again 
(and from something more complete than dmesg) ?
Comment 3 Michael Sammels 2009-06-07 20:10:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> 1. This looks more like a support question than a bug.
> 2. Could you limit that log to just the lines printed
> when you unplug the drive and plug it back again 
> (and from something more complete than dmesg) ?
> 

1. Sorry, I thought it was perhaps a bug.
2. I have done so, using grep this time.
3. What do you recommend?

See attached file.
Comment 4 Michael Sammels 2009-06-07 20:11:05 UTC
Created attachment 193830 [details]
dmesg log with USB
Comment 5 Rafał Mużyło 2009-06-07 22:27:21 UTC
I'm not saying it's not a bug, just that it
may be a problem with the drive model or alike,
so this problem may be better suited for the forum,
where somebody perhaps will recall about a similar problem.

You said yourself, that other drives work,
so if that's not a problem with the filesystem,
it may be like Linux not liking the way this model works
or it's just a hardware failure.
Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-06-11 06:26:05 UTC
Assuming these messages follow each other quite rapidly, it would seem the device isn't getting enough power once it's initialising:

usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 1-8: USB disconnect, address 9

I don't see how this is a Gentoo problem unless you can point out how it's no problem when you run the same hardware with different software.