[CentOS] USB flash drive stopped working properly....

Thu Feb 22 19:29:53 UTC 2007
David A. Woyciesjes <david.woyciesjes at yale.edu>

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> This past Tuesday (2/22/07) my flash drive started acting really strange
> - it only worked intermittently and would disappear right after an
> access or two.  Yesterday it stopped working altogether - I couldn't
> even access it through my WinXP-on-VMWare.  I rebooted my machine, and
> it worked fine after that.
> 
> Is there some time limit on how long a USB flash drive will work in
> CentOS or is this a bug or ? ? ?
> 
> I'm running a Dell Precision 390 with a Pentium-4 HT 3GHz, 2Gb mem, 1
> SATA 150Gb (?) drive, multiple USB ports (including KB&mouse), etc.,
> using CentOS 4.4 with the 2.6.9-42.0.8 kernel.
> 
> The flash drive is a 2Gb SanDisk Titanium Cruzer-mini.
> 
> Thanks.

	Hmmm, this might be similar to my issue. I have 2 USB keys, one mounts 
okay, 256MB SanDisk SD card in an adapter), the other (SanDisk Cruzer 
mini 256MB) gets funky, won't automatically mount. But when I manually 
mount it, the automount part finally works.
	Last week I posted a message (with no replies) about the Cruzer not 
being able to mount at all. The only change this time was I ran (in 
Windows) Scandisk.on the Cruzer. Still not quite right, though.
	And my box is a Precision 530...


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