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    SubjectRe: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage
    On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:04:19PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
    > Rogier Wolff wrote:
    > >On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:46:31AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
    > >
    > >>On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
    > >>
    > >>>I get the feeling it's not a true mass storage device.
    > >>
    > >>Sounds like it.
    > >
    > >
    > >Nope. Sure does sound like it's a mass storage device. And it works
    > >too.
    > >
    > >The kernel managed to read the partition table off it, and got
    > >one valid partition: sda1.
    >
    > Accept that you cannot read data from the device. At all.
    > Even dd fails. And the windows drivers work (using XP
    > in vmware it think it was) correctly on this same device.

    If the kernel can't read the first block, you get to see something
    like:

    sda: <io error on device 8:00>
    unable to read parttion table.

    and I don't know how the kernel could come up with an "sda1" all
    by itself.......

    Roger.

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