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Hey

Whenever I plug in my USB stick nothing happens. No light on the drive, no auto-mount, nothing. When I attempted a manual mount it seemed to lock up, but when I removed it I believe the full directory/file listing was shown in the file manager.

When plugged in, lsusb shows:

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Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

My Creative Zen Micro seems to be just fine and is listed in lsusb as:

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Bus 003 Device 004: ID 041e:411e Creative Techonology, Ltd Zen Micro

dmesg shows:

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usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4

usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

usb 1-2 USB disconnect, address 4

usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5

usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

scsi2: SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

usb-storage: device found at 5

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Flash Disk 7.78 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

SCSI device sda 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)

sda: Write Protect is off

sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

sda: assuming drive cache: write through

SCSI device sda 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)

sda: Write Protect is off

sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

sda: assuming drive cache: write through

 sda: sda1

 sda:p1 exceeds device capacity

sd 2:0:0:0: Attched scsi removable disk sda

usb-storage: device scan complete

attempt to access beyond end of device

sda: rw=0, want256808, limit256000

Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 32096

attempt to access beyond end of device

sda: rw=0, want256808, limit256000

Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 32096

attempt to access beyond end of device

sda: rw=0, want257040, limit256000

Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 32125

attempt to access beyond end of device

sda: rw=0, want257040, limit256000

Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 32125



.. etc

When I tryed a manual mount I also got:

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FAT Directory bread(block 504) failed

scsi 1:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

FAT Directory bread(block 505) failed

scsi 1:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device



...



FAT Directory bread(block 534) failed

scsi 1:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

FAT Directory bread(block 535) failed

scsi 1:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

First impressions say that the drive is buggered, but it works fine on my XP machine and I've never had any problems with it until today. Running Debian Etch Stable with XFCE 4 and 2.6.21.1 kernel on a Samsung GT9000 Series laptop.

Thanks in advance.