Broken USB flash stick?

[Snufkin]

I have WL-500g (not gx) with 1.9.2.7-6c-pre5 firmware. Everything was fine, but today I tried to insert flash stick with single 1 GB FAT32 partition in proper slot of WL box. Corresponding records from log file are listed below.

Could somebody help me to understand what is wrong with WL box and flash stick?


Jan 4 23:21:29 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 2
Jan 4 23:21:29 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 4 23:21:29 kernel: Vendor: JetFlash Model: TS1GJF2B Rev: 2.00
Jan 4 23:21:29 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 4 23:21:29 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: Current sd00:00: sns = 70 6
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: ASC=28 ASCQ= 0
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: Partition check:
Jan 4 23:21:30 kernel: p1 p2 p4
Jan 4 23:22:05 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:20 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:25 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:30 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:35 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:40 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:45 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:50 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jan 4 23:22:55 kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
Jan 4 23:23:05 kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Jan 4 23:23:05 kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 6050000
Jan 4 23:23:05 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2
Jan 4 23:23:05 kernel: EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock

[Oleg]

Seems like it does not have MBR (formatted like a floppy, this is Transcend "know-how" with latest flashes). wl500g detected 3 partitions, which seems to be invalid. You've to run something like a partition magic/acronix/fdisk/whatever you like, create MBR, single FAT partition and reformat the stick.

P.S. PM me if in doubt. :)

[Snufkin]

Today I tried to connect external 3,5-inch drive instead of yesterday's flash. This time everything went with no trouble.

Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 2
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: Vendor: Maxtor 2 Model: B020H1 Rev: WAH2
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: SCSI device sda: 40020625 512-byte hdwr sectors (20491 MB)
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: Partition check:
Jan 5 11:32:18 kernel: p1
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sd(8,1).
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 950
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset cp950
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: Found signature1 0x66024a1e signature2 0xc88b6602 sector=4.
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=cp950
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: Found signature1 0x66024a1e signature2 0xc88b6602 sector=4.
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
Jan 5 11:32:22 kernel: NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only
Jan 5 11:32:22 USB storage: ntfs(ro) fs mounted to /tmp/harddisk
Jan 5 11:32:22 FTP server: daemon is started