[ale] USB woes

[Christopher Fowler]

Okay.  I can not format my USB hdd because the kernel goes stupid in the
process.  Here is my idea.

1.  dd the partition to /tmp and format the image
2.  dd the image back to the partition.

We'll that don't work.

After dd fails I do a dmesg and see this:
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to device being removed
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to device being removed
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to device being removed
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to device being removed
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to device being removed
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to device being removed

I also see the read led on solid on the disk as if it is still writing
data. I also get about 18G of the partition before failure.  

I also see this sometimes:
cfowler at linux:/> dmesg
SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Current sde: sense key Hardware Error
Additional sense: Data phase error
end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 36778687
Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 36778624


I also have tried other USB->IDE converters with the same effect.  The
*only* solution I found and an unacceptable one is to remove 2.0 module
and write only at 1.1.  Takes too long to complete.



Here is my installation.

SuSE 9.1
Linux linux 2.6.5-7.108-default #1 Wed Aug 25 13:34:40 UTC 2004 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux

http://66.23.198.138:81/usb/hw1.jpg
http://66.23.198.138:81/usb/hw2.jpg