Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263623AbTH0QLp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:11:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263625AbTH0QK2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:10:28 -0400 Received: from gw-nl5.philips.com ([212.153.235.109]:22510 "EHLO gw-nl5.philips.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263610AbTH0QJU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:09:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4CD7FC.4040309@basmevissen.nl> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:10:36 +0200 From: Bas Mevissen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List)" Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?) References: <200308271511.h7RFBFHu017520@wildsau.idv.uni.linz.at> In-Reply-To: <200308271511.h7RFBFHu017520@wildsau.idv.uni.linz.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1403 Lines: 34 H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List) wrote: >>> > okidok.... I got an new flashdisk from the vendor, but managed to ruin > it again. anyway, I also managed to repair it again. the vendor ships > a seperate formating-tool, which will repair the device, even when you > get "SCSI sense key errors". > Q for the specialists: What SCSI access can still work then? I'm wondering if you can still write something to it. My first guess about that vender tool was that it just writes a valid partition table to the disk. The only problem is that you need to deduce the actual size of the flashdisk. But that can be retrieved from some USB identification string. But it's more likely that it just uses some propriety interface to reset the device. > however, I still don't understand what's going on and *why* it is not > allowed to format the drive "at will". I'd also would like to know how > this vendor supplied formating-tool works. Possibly some vendor-specific > usb-commands to ... do what? hm. I can only guess. > You can use USB Snoopy to find out what that vendor tool (for Windows, I presume) does. Bas. - 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/