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I would appreciate an interpretation of a SCSI error message I get when plugging in my USB flash drive. A long post to show you what I've tried from reading these fora.

cinnamon:/ # uname -a
Linux cinnamon 2.6.8-24.16-default #1 Thu Jun 2 12:09:57 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

cinnamon:/ # lsmod | grep usb

Quote:

usb_storage 62528 0
usbserial 26856 0
usbcore 106724 6 usb_storage,usbserial,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
scsi_mod 111052 6 usb_storage,sg,st,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod

cinnamon:/ # cat /etc/fstab

Quote:

/dev/sda7 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda8 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sda9 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/diskonkey vfat noauto,user,rw,exec,sync 00

When I plug in the flash drive, SUSE detects and mounts it at:
/media/usb-00000000000407:0:0:0p1

I can also mount by typing
mount /dev/sdb1

fdisk -l shows

Quote:

cinnamon:/media # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 10010 59922450 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2551 5100 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 5101 5229 1036161 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 5230 6535 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 6536 7841 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 7842 10009 17414428+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 126 MB, 126615552 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 482 123376 6 FAT16

However, I cannot open files on the flash drive, and it eventually freezes the file browser.
Here is some of the output from /var/log/messages (duplicate lines much edited out!):

Quote:

Jul 19 21:45:00 cinnamon kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 4
Jul 19 21:45:00 cinnamon kernel: usb 1-3: Product: USB Mass Storage Device
Jul 19 21:45:00 cinnamon kernel: usb 1-3: Manufacturer: USBest Technology
Jul 19 21:45:00 cinnamon kernel: usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 00000000000407
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Disk Rev: 0.00
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: SCSI device sdb: 247296 512-byte hdwr sectors (127 MB)
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: sdb: sdb1
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 4
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Jul 19 21:45:06 cinnamon kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[7576]: new block device /block/sdb
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[7587]: mount block device /block/sdb
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[7575]: new block device /block/sdb/sdb1
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[7608]: mount block device /block/sdb/sdb1
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon kernel: Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 19 21:45:15 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 21:45:18 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 21:45:18 cinnamon kernel: Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 19 21:45:20 cinnamon /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[7608]: mount disk/by-path/usb-00000000000407:0:0:0p1
Jul 19 21:45:23 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 21:45:23 cinnamon kernel: Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 19 21:45:30 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 21:46:20 cinnamon kernel: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
JJul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2366
Jul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2367
Jul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2368
Jul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2369
Jul 19 21:46:54 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
Jul 19 21:46:54 cinnamon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8648
Jul 19 21:46:54 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8616
Jul 19 21:47:00 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
Jul 19 21:47:00 cinnamon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8649
Jul 19 21:47:00 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8617
Jul 19 21:47:06 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
Jul 19 21:47:06 cinnamon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8650
Jul 19 21:47:06 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8618

Jul 19 21:47:12 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
Jul 19 21:47:12 cinnamon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8651
Jul 19 21:47:12 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8619
Jul 19 21:47:19 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
Jul 19 21:47:19 cinnamon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8652
Jul 19 21:47:19 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8620
Jul 19 21:47:25 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
Jul 19 21:47:25 cinnamon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8653
Jul 19 21:47:25 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8621
Jul 19 22:17:06 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 3 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 22:17:06 cinnamon kernel: Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 19 22:17:07 cinnamon kernel: SCSI error: host 3 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000002
Jul 19 22:17:07 cinnamon kernel: Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon last message repeated 2 times
Jul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2356
Jul 19 22:46:33 cinnamon kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2357

I'm starting to suspect that there may be a physical problem with the device...
Any advice or guidance would be much appreciated.