At Wed, 2 Mar 2011 23:28:01 +0100, hans dinsen-hansen wrote: > > Hi Markol > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Marko Schütz Schmuck > <MarkoSchuetz%web.de@localhost> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I just inserted a usb stick and the system repeatably became > > unresponsive. HD light was on/flickering, but keyboard/mouse > > interactions didn't work. Also sleep-button didn't have an effect. The > > relevant snippet from the log: > > > > Mar 2 10:37:03 prpad /netbsd: umass0: SanDisk Corporation U3 Cruzer Micro, > > rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 > > Mar 2 10:37:03 prpad /netbsd: umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only > > Mar 2 10:37:03 prpad /netbsd: scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 2 luns per > > target > > Mar 2 10:37:03 prpad /netbsd: sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SanDisk, U3 > > Cruzer Micro, 4.05> disk removable > > Mar 2 10:37:03 prpad /netbsd: sd0: 1952 MB, 3967 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 > > bytes/sect x 3999373 sectors > > Mar 2 10:37:03 prpad /netbsd: cd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 1: <SanDisk, U3 > > Cruzer Micro, 4.05> cdrom removable > > Mar 2 10:38:18 prpad syslogd: restart > > > > Is this known? I didn't find it in gnats (but didn't look too hard...). > > > > Best regards, > > > > Marko > > First of all: I have not seen your problem -- but: > > I have noticed that some USBsticks present themselves at CD. > I have also experienced that some of KDE' CD-reading programs do > strange things with the CDs e.g. they want to access CDs in a very > special way. That gave endless messages on console and log. > > What I would suggest - if you use KDE is to stop KDE with > /etc/rc.d/kdm stop > Then look if your messages stop. If they do, then find out how NetBSD > sees your stick with > disklabel sd0 > and > fdisk sd0 > With dd save the first part of the stick. If partition d describes > your whole stick, you could for instance make > dd if=/dev/sd0d of=safety bs=1m count=$enough > Then try to set the disk parameters with > fdisk --u sd0 > and make it into an MSDOS file system with > newfs_msdos /dev/rsd0d > or whatever you want > > If anything goes wrong you can restore your stick with > dd <back again> thank you very much for the advice. This was someone else's stick, not mine. I doubt I will ever have to connect it again, but I was surprised at how my laptop reacted: in almost a decade of using NetBSD on laptops I hadn't seen anything like this and was wondering if someone had seen this before. Thanks again for the advice. Best regards, Marko
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