On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:23, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > 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, I don't know if this makes a difference, but my Sony MicroVault USB2 "thumb drive" mounts as FAT16 /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1. I've never had to format or fsck it. I use it like a 256MB floppy to transfer files between Linux and Windows systems at home and work. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
