Another SanDisk USB Mini Cruzer problem

[Brian Gaynor]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:59, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> I have a SanDisk Mini Cruzer 128MB USB key that won't work in Fedora
> Core 1.  I get this when I plug it into my IBM Thinkpad T40 (USB2):

> Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended
> sense 0
> Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Apr 15 11:08:12 fc1 kernel:  unable to read partition table
> Apr 15 11:08:13 fc1 devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
>                                                                                 I have had some success at formatting these types of key in Linux, but fdisk doesn't show sda at all (it cannot read the partition table).  I tried the key on FC2test2, where I could fdisk it.  But I still could not mount it on either OS.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Forrest


I had similar problems with a San Disk Mini Cruzer (256MB) until I recompiled
the stock Fedora kernel with "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" enabled (look
under SCSI options). After that I had no problems mounting and using as a
VFAT partition (so I could also read it under Windows).

Brian 

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