hi

I have 256M Kingston flashdrive and I am using Redhat 3 with update 7. When I plug in the drive I get this messages but I can access the drive but on wondows it is ok.

can some body tell me what is going on

Jul 17 08:46:22 ark kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-5, assigned address 7
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product c76/5/100
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: SCSI device sda: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:25 ark kernel: unable to read partition table
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark devlabel: devlabel's temporary ignore list /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d/ignore_list has been emptied due to a change in device configuration.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark devlabel: The device /dev/sda1 is being put in devlabel's temporary ignore list /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d/ignore_list to avoid errors.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark devlabel: The device /dev/sda2 is being put in devlabel's temporary ignore list /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d/ignore_list to avoid errors.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark devlabel: The device /dev/sda3 is being put in devlabel's temporary ignore list /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d/ignore_list to avoid errors.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark devlabel: The device /dev/sda4 is being put in devlabel's temporary ignore list /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d/ignore_list to avoid errors.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: unable to read partition table
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark kernel: unable to read partition table
Jul 17 08:46:27 ark devlabel: The device /dev/sdb is being put in devlabel's temporary ignore list /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d/ignore_list to avoid errors.
Jul 17 08:46:28 ark devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted


Regards

Asanka

Have you tried to mount it manually?
i.e.

Is it possible that the drive may have been formatted something other than FAT?

Sure. Try "cfdisk /dev/sda" to see the partitions.

Or, as user "root", try the commands I posted without specifying the type with "-t vfat", i.e. simply "mount /dev/sda1 usbdisk". That should work regardless of the file system type, but again only if you are user root.

I don't have that command cfdisk

I can mount th usb thing is if unmount and replug the usb it change the /dev device like

First plugin /dev/sda1

teh next plug in it would be /dev/sdb1