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Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 24

[Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

Hi,

my USB Stick which attends me everywhere stopped working. This happened when it was plugged into a Winows XP machine which freezed at some point. Now the stick doesn't show up in both Windows and Linux.

[marcel@thinkpad ~]$ dmesg | grep -e sdb
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 31588352 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb:
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 31588352 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb:
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 31588352 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb:
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x05 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[marcel@thinkpad ~]$ 

I've tried to format the drive using gparted but the programm doesn't stop "Scanning for all devices" as long as the stick is plugged in.

Any suggestions how to revive this stick?

Regards

Flylow

Last edited by Flylow (2010-10-16 15:38:16)

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

Perhaps you can try lsusb to examine the details for the stick..if it shows up.

If you get a handle on the stick, dd could clean it up with /dev/zero.  It has to be Id'd for that program to work.

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Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

The drive shows up in the first line (it's a SuperTalent Pico C 16 GB Drive)

[marcel@thinkpad ~]$ lsusb
Bus 008 Device 008: ID 1307:0165 Transcend Information, Inc. 2GB/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04b3:3107 IBM Corp. ThinkPad 800dpi Optical Travel Mouse
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 17ef:4807 Lenovo UVC Camera
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[marcel@thinkpad ~]

I'm not familliar with the ld command. Just tried "sudo ld /dev/sdb" which makes the terminal hang until I pull out the stick. Would the syntax be right?

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

The command necessary to run and "clean" your stick is....

dd if=/dev/zero of= /dev/sd(x).... where (x) is your designator.

You may also try cfdisk on the device.....that is done with:

cfdisk /dev/sd(x)

Try the cfdisk first to examine the partitions and make a decision as to what to do next.

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Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

Checked both - the terminal hangs until i pull out the stick.

lilsirecho

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Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

Be very certain of the device to be run with DD command!!!

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Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

Sure. It's "sdb" as it's visible from the output of dmesg in my first post.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

If neither approach works, the device is history.

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Flylow

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] USB Stick unaccesable

The stick has been replaced by the vendor. Thanks for your help :-)