[Gllug] linux usb mass storage

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Ian Norton on Sunday 25 January 2004 1:03 pm:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Recently my Creative nomad MuVo player has taken a dislike to linux, i have
> had to preformat it using the windows program for it to get it to play
> again,
>
> I noticed a slight corruption of the mp3's on the drive after using it on
> linux. fsck seemed to tell me that the FATs were out of sync,
>
> all after proper sync. umount etc, has anyone else noticed occasional
> corruption on usb mass storage devices?
>
> (linux-2.4.22)

Sandisk 256mb, 2.4.20 and 2.4.23. 

When I first used this, I noticed that WinXP appeared to consider that a file 
copied to it from linux was corrupted, though diff saw no problem. 

Since then, I've left the device in for much longer than it takes to sync 
three times, and have had no problem even if the device is removed without an 
umount.

My assumption is that there is some kind of buffering happening in the device 
that doesn't flush, and might well be lost, when powered down shortly after 
the transfer.
- -- 
Alistair

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