16GB USB Drive Not Accessible

[James Kosin]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I recently bought a snazzy new 16GB USB pen drive from the local store -
> it was only $29! I have several drives that are 8GB and smaller from the
> same store that are the same brand.
> 
> Imagine my surprise when:
> * The 16GB drive is not accessible on either F9 or F10 Snap 3
> * The 8GB drives all work just fine on both F9 and F10 Snap 3
> * The 16GB drive works fine on Windows XP
> * The 16GB drive also works on a Windows XP VM running on top of F9!!!
> 
> I can only conclude from this that something is a miss that causes F9 to
> not be able to access and use USB pen drives that are bigger than 8GB,
> and that this most likely has something to do with a file system driver
> or such.
> 
> Anyone else seen this yet? Is there a fix / work-around?
> 
> Here's the dmesg output for those who might be interested:
> 
> ==============================================
> usb 1-2.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13
> usb 1-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi1264 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 13
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> usb 1-2.3: New USB device found, idVendor=090c, idProduct=1000
> usb 1-2.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 1-2.3: Product: USB Flash Drive
> usb 1-2.3: Manufacturer: USB 2.0
> usb 1-2.3: SerialNumber: AA20000000000306
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> scsi 1264:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USB 2.0  USB Flash Drive  1100 PQ: 0
> ANSI: 0 CCS
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] 31326208 512-byte hardware sectors (16039 MB)
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] 31326208 512-byte hardware sectors (16039 MB)
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdb: sdb1
> sd 1264:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> sd 1264:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> ata5.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
> ata5: soft resetting link
> ata5: nv_mode_filter: 0x1&0x1f01f->0x1, BIOS=0x1f000 (0xc5000000)
> ACPI=0x1f01f (30:600:0x13)
> ata5.00: configured for PIO0
> ata5: EH complete
> ==============================================
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
Chris,

Looks good.  Did you try mounting the drive and see if you can get a
directory list?

James

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