Hello. I have a Creative MuVO mp3 player I'm trying to use as a USB flash drive. After I boot with the thing plugged in, grepping for usb in /var/log/messages shows: Jul 27 19:41:31 home kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs Jul 27 19:41:31 home kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub Jul 27 19:41:32 home kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Jul 27 19:41:32 home kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid Jul 27 19:41:32 home kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver Jul 27 19:41:33 home kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Jul 27 19:41:33 home kernel: usb 4-2: device not accepting address 2, error -71 Jul 27 19:41:33 home kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 Jul 27 19:41:33 home kernel: usb 4-2: device not accepting address 3, error -71 and lsmod shows: uhci_hcd 24472 0 ehci_hcd 22916 0 scsi_mod 91984 3 sg,libata,sd_mod but no mention of usb-storage so I remove the thing, do modprobe usb-storage and plug it back in. Now /var/log/message says: Jul 27 19:59:29 home kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jul 27 19:59:29 home kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Jul 27 19:59:29 home kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: Vendor: CREATIVE Model: NOMAD_MUVO Rev: 0001 Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: SCSI device sda: 256001 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: sda:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 256000 Jul 27 20:01:20 home kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 256000 Jul 27 20:01:30 home scsi.agent[2953]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0/type does not exist Does anyone know what's going on here? I also have: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab, but mount /mnt/usb sometimes just sits there forever doing nothing and other times complains that /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device, presumably because of the I/O errors. Thanks in advance, Eliot Stock.
