kern/40720: USB Thumb drive dies during writing to it

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>Number:         40720
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       USB Thumb drive dies during writing to it
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 23 00:40:01 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Merritt Draney
>Release:        5.0 Beta 2
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
NetBSD popcorn.myhome.westell.com 5.0_RC2 NetBSD 5.0_RC2 (MYKERNEL-$Revision: 
1.915.2.3 $) #1: Sun Feb 22 17:15:03 EST 2009  
merritt%popcorn.myhome.westell.com@localhost:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile.i386/MYKERNEL
 i386

>Description:
Initially I had a fat32 formated usb drive, Kingston 4.0 Gig Datatraveler, and 
use it to back up my files every now and again.  I recently installed a 5.0 
Beta version and was moving files from it onto the newly partitioned NetBSD 
installation.  The transfer died halfway through.  On Linux and PCBSD 7.0 it 
works perfectly fine though strangely it does not in FreeBSD 7.1 it does not 
and it gives me the similar errors when I try to do the same thing.  After 
trying to do this on FreeBSD it crashed and corrupted the drive past 
recoverability due to the hard reboot.  Now I tried to create a NetBSD 
partition on it, and it dies also while doing newfs.  Here is the error in 
/var/log/messages

Feb 22 16:53:05 popcorn /netbsd: umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
Feb 22 16:54:10 popcorn /netbsd: umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
Feb 22 16:55:15 popcorn /netbsd: umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, 
TIMEOUT
Feb 22 16:57:25 popcorn /netbsd: umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT
Feb 22 16:58:30 popcorn /netbsd: umass0: BBB bulk-in clear stall failed, TIMEOUT
Feb 22 16:59:35 popcorn /netbsd: umass0: BBB bulk-out clear stall failed, 
TIMEOUT

and on and on it goes.  I used the instructions at 
http://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php/How_to_install_NetBSD_from_an_USB_Memory_Stick 
to format the drive.  Looking at the drive while this happens.  Initially the 
drive light flashes and then goes dark and you have to reboot to get it to work 
again. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Just do any of the above.
>Fix:
I do not know.