[Gllug] linux usb mass storage

[Xander Harkness]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:03:36PM +0000, Ian Norton wrote:
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>>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?
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>I recently got myself a MuVo too and have seen exactly this behaviour.
>I noticed that if I type 'dmesg' there are all sorts of horrific
>scsi error messages getting spewed to the console. After a little
>experimentation I noticed that it seemed particularly bad when I
>had several Nautilus windows open and was doing multiple concurrent
>copies. So I've tried mounting the device with the 'sync' option
>and all the errors disappeared. The downside is that copy files
>to it is now like wading through treacle :-( Next up I'm going to 
>try just the 'dirsync' option which doesn't slow things down as much
>since it only synchronizes directory operations. Personally I blame
>dodgy firmware since USB mass storage in general seems pretty good
>these days. My kernel is 2.4.21-4.EL BTW. 
>
>Dan.
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Has anyone had any success using devlabel on USB devices to make them 
addressable irrespective of what devices are present. 

This would allow the automounter to always mount a USB key in the same 
place if using two or three keys simultaneously.

Kind regards
Xander
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