Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (27 mails)

[Oliver Schweikert <oliver.schweikert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I read the autoyast profiles for installation from an USB flash drive.
This worked so far with many different drives, but now i have a problem 
with a 8GB drive (Imation Nano Pro, with password protection).
The first time, yast can successfully read the profile and starts the 
installation. The second time, after abort, the same drive cannot be 
accessed anymore.
I made 2 test with 2 different computers:
One drive has now invalid vendor, product name, etc,
the second one seems to have valid metadata. But both fail to report 
anything by sfdisk or fdisk.
I tried both types of URL: usb:///... and device://sdb1/...

Has anyone an idea what yast (or another part of installation process) 
is doing, that could mess up the firmware?
Maybe a USB/SCSI command, that is unusual to a USB drive?

Best Regards,
Oliver

This are the kernel messages when plugging in a working drive:

  usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
  usb 4-2: new device found, idVendor=0718, idProduct=043b
  usb 4-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
  usb 4-2: Product: Nano Pro
  usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Imation
  usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 078C171929B4
  usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
  scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  usb-storage: device found at 6
  usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Imation  Nano Pro         PMAP PQ: 0 
 ANSI: 0 CCS
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 15646720 512-byte hardware sectors (8011 MB)
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 15646720 512-byte hardware sectors (8011 MB)
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
  sdb: sdb1
  sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
  sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  usb-storage: device scan complete

and this are the ones of the same drive after installation:

  usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
  usb 4-2: new device found, idVendor=0718, idProduct=043b
  usb 4-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
  usb 4-2: Product: Nano Pro
  usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Imation
  usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 078C171929B4
  usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
  scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  usb-storage: device found at 10
  usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Imation  Nano Pro         PMAP PQ: 0 
  ANSI: 0 CCS
  sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
  sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  usb-storage: device scan complete

This is the output of the broken drive with the screwed up metadata. It 
is the same product as the other one!

  usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
  usb 4-2: new device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=1d00
  usb 4-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
  usb 4-2: Product: USB DISK 30X
  usb 4-2: Manufacturer:
  usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
  scsi13 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  usb-storage: device found at 11
  usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB DISK 30X     1.00 PQ: 0 
 ANSI: 0 CCS
  sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
  sd 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  usb-storage: device scan complete



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Oliver Schweikert
Software Development

HORIBA Europe Automation Division GmbH
Zabergäustr. 3
73765 Neuhausen (Germany)
Tel: +49 7158-933-413
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Email: oliver.schweikert@xxxxxxxxxx

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