FS#13284 - kernel26-2.6.28 is killing USBest 165 firmware (Corsair Flash Voyager & A-DATA flash drives)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tomas Mudrunka (harvie) - Sunday, 15 February 2009, 00:36 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 16 February 2009, 05:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Flash Voyagers and A-Data are very popular usb thumbdrives, but their firmware is killed after inserting&removing it in usb port on linux box few times (1 or more) and it needs to be reflashed using windows!

Additional info:
theres no special info in dmesg or kernel.log (its looks like everything works OK), but device /dev/sdX is inaccessible, fdisk -l shows anything, cfdisk is not working and you can't see partitions (/dev/sdXY)...

These thumbdrives works well on windows systems until they are not inserted into the Linux box.

Steps to reproduce:
Create partition and format it to any type of FS using linux or windows.
Try to connect and disconnect it (i tried Corsair Flash Voyager 32 GB - version with neckband - i heard it have different chipset than version without neckband... - the USBest 165) few times to linux box. (I have hal+gnome automount enabled, but removing mounted flashdrive still shouldn't brick the thumbdrive - should it? and it will probably be killed without mounting also)
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Monday, 16 February 2009, 05:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  See last comment
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 15 February 2009, 11:45 GMT
This is a Linux kernel issue. It must be reported upstream.
Comment by Tomas Mudrunka (harvie) - Sunday, 15 February 2009, 13:18 GMT
Added to kernel bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12709

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