Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB flash drive mount point fun

[Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <me@guillermoamaral.com>]

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On Wednesday 27 June 2007 08:35:20 Mark Haney wrote:
> Okay, obviously I'm sucking at making things clear today.  Here's a
> second stab at what I"m doing.  I have a USB flash drive (2GB).  I plub
> it into the USB port on my laptop.  I copy files.  I dig around for the
> other files I need, I go back to copy more files (via konqueror) and
> /while the usb drive is still and has been connected the entire time/ I
> look and see that the drive has moved from /media/sda1 to /media/sdb1.
>
> I copy more files, look around, find more things to copy, go back and
> the drive is now at /media/sdc1, etc.  All the while I've not unmounted
> or removed the drive at all.  It's just sitting there blinking it's
> little green LED light occasionally.
>
> Does that make a little more sense?

  I have seen this in a friends workstation that had a external usb hard 
drive, what I noticed then was that something goes wrong when writing to the 
device and the USB resets, it can be many small writes or one big flush, in  
this particular case it got fixed by moving the drive from one port to 
another... I know it sounds odd but it happends on my laptop aswell with my 
wifi, thumbdrive and usb phone in one particular port... they all work fine 
on the other 3 ports


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