Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 02:19:07 EST


On Iau, 2003-08-21 at 02:34, H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List) wrote:
> hi,
>
> just today, I bought an "USB BAR", a 128MB flash disk. I managed to make
> the device unusable and only get scsi-errors from it.

Are you sure it didnt just fail. The report you give basically says
"after the first write the flash device failed entirely". That doen't
seem an abnormal flash failure mode

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