On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:00, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Filesystem panic (dev 08:01). > fat_free: deleting beyond EOF > File system has been set read-only > How should we call this problem, considering the output above? instability of USB > drivers in the kernel? hardware/connector problems? something else? > Keep in mind that I have seen the very same behavior > on shrike, even if the dmesg above comes from rh7.2 I'd say the "disk" was not formatted correctly. If it came this way from the factory you should just be able to fsck /dev/sda1 and/or initialise it with mkfs. It did work with windows, did it? Klaasjan