Re: [PLUG] compact flash reader weirdness

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:03:24PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
>   [65 lines, 447 words, 3145 characters]  Top characters: es-tiond
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> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:05:01PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> > The device /dev/sda1 has disappeared since my last reboot:
> > 
> > [...]
> >
> > At least it works now, but this is is weird.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Is udev installed?  That or hotplug does strange things to removable
> devices.  That is where I would start your investigation - syslog
> snippets might also be helpful in debugging.

It is:

  jeff@asterix:jeff $ df -h
  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/hda2              73G   66G  3.1G  96% /
  tmpfs                 507M     0  507M   0% /dev/shm
  /dev/hdb1             231G  133G   86G  61% /home
  /dev                   73G   66G  3.1G  96% /.dev
  none                  5.0M  748K  4.3M  15% /dev
  jeff@asterix:jeff $ 

/var/log/messages says

  Apr  6 12:01:40 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB)
  Apr  6 12:01:40 asterix kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
  Apr  6 12:01:40 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB)
  Apr  6 12:01:40 asterix kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
  Apr  6 12:01:40 asterix kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
  Apr  6 12:01:40 asterix kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
  Apr  6 12:01:43 asterix kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
  Apr  6 12:01:58 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB)
  Apr  6 12:01:58 asterix kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
  Apr  6 12:01:58 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors (513 MB)
  Apr  6 12:01:58 asterix kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
  Apr  6 12:01:58 asterix kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
  Apr  6 12:01:58 asterix kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

I'm sure I was playing with this for more than 18 seconds, but that's
all that's in messages.

So what is the Right Thing To Do?

-- 
 Jeff

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