-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Suse 9.1 Pro Dell Inspiron 8500 (P4M) I'm just wondering why it is that when I plug in my USB floppy drive, this silly subfs thing creates about 10 instances of it (this is a Dell branded module that is supposed to fit into one of the bays, but I'm plugging it into a usb port instead): usb 4-6.1: new full speed USB device using address 9 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: qh de419480 (#0) state 1 usb 4-6.1: Product: NEC USB UF000x usb 4-6.1: Manufacturer: NEC scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Attached scsi generic sg4 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdf at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Attached scsi generic sg5 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 2, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdg at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 Attached scsi generic sg6 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 3, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdh at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 4 Attached scsi generic sg7 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 4, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdi at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 5 Attached scsi generic sg8 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 5, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdj at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 6 Attached scsi generic sg9 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 6, type 0 ~ Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 ~ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdk at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 7 Attached scsi generic sg10 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 7, type 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 9 sayf@data:~> Then, when I insert a floppy into it: JBD: barrier-based sync failed on hda4 - disabling barriers SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB) sdh: assuming Write Enabled sdh: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB) sdh: assuming Write Enabled sdh: assuming drive cache: write through ~ sdh: unknown partition table scsi6: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 4, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 60 00 Info fld=0x7e, Current sdh: sense key Medium Error Additional sense: Unrecovered read error end_request: I/O error, dev sdh, sector 120 Buffer I/O error on device sdh, logical block 15 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, - --Sayf - -- Blue Moose IT Support www.bluemooseit.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7n7Hh6qZaDhhuVMRAvBvAJ4iG9ALPocgVhva2ZOkPlr8EtJ4cwCfZQty uVFuXvvHlP1jfYY8hifY1dA= =cXYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----