Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262487AbTHUHMG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:12:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262489AbTHUHMG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:12:06 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:11419 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262487AbTHUHMF (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:12:05 -0400 Subject: Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?) From: Alan Cox To: "H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List)" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200308210134.h7L1YmRE011754@wildsau.idv.uni.linz.at> References: <200308210134.h7L1YmRE011754@wildsau.idv.uni.linz.at> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1061449894.3029.1.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 (1.4.3-3) Date: 21 Aug 2003 08:11:36 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 15 On Iau, 2003-08-21 at 02:34, H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List) wrote: > hi, > > just today, I bought an "USB BAR", a 128MB flash disk. I managed to make > the device unusable and only get scsi-errors from it. Are you sure it didnt just fail. The report you give basically says "after the first write the flash device failed entirely". That doen't seem an abnormal flash failure mode - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/