Hi,
Recently I discovered what I think is a bug related to the Linux kernel or something, here is my case study :
- I am running Linux openSUSE 13.1 x64 on my office rig
- I am running Linux Lubuntu 13.10 on my Dell notebook
- I have another Linux Ubuntu on a second PC
- I also have 2 notebooks with Windows XP and Windows 7
- I have a Sharp LED HD wich seems to be running some sort of Linux OS as almost all Smart TVs now with USB ports and Media Players
I experienced some strange behaviors sometimes with USB flash drives formatted either FAT32 or NTFS, that is when connected, their partition and filesystem are not recognized and because of that, unable to mount manually or auto-mount. I usually then format them using Gparted or Partitioner in openSUSE and works fine for some time.
BUT,
What I discovered is that ONLY Linux based OSes don't recognize the filesystem, when the exact same flash drive is inserted in ANY Windows machine it works just fine, and Windows 7 doesn't even ask to "Scan and Fix", everything is fine and doing a chkdsk results in all being ok.
It got my attention when I tried to play some videos on my Linux based Sharp HDTV, no files found even though I just copied them from my Windows notebook, so I pulled the flashdrive from the TV, put in back in my Windows notebook and everything was fine, put it in my Linux openSUSE machine and VOILA, no automount, no manual mount, the flash drive is detected but the patition filesystem is not recognized, SBD1 is not available. I then tried and put in my Lubuntu machine, same thing no fs, on Ubuntu machine same thing, so clearly this is something related only to Linux based OSes.
Here are some logs I got from my openSUSE
This is a 4GB FAT32 flash drive with some video files that WORKS just fine under Windows but not in Linux, nor my TV, openSUSE, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.
dmesg
lsusb
fdisk -l
blkid does not see it
Recently I discovered what I think is a bug related to the Linux kernel or something, here is my case study :
- I am running Linux openSUSE 13.1 x64 on my office rig
- I am running Linux Lubuntu 13.10 on my Dell notebook
- I have another Linux Ubuntu on a second PC
- I also have 2 notebooks with Windows XP and Windows 7
- I have a Sharp LED HD wich seems to be running some sort of Linux OS as almost all Smart TVs now with USB ports and Media Players
I experienced some strange behaviors sometimes with USB flash drives formatted either FAT32 or NTFS, that is when connected, their partition and filesystem are not recognized and because of that, unable to mount manually or auto-mount. I usually then format them using Gparted or Partitioner in openSUSE and works fine for some time.
BUT,
What I discovered is that ONLY Linux based OSes don't recognize the filesystem, when the exact same flash drive is inserted in ANY Windows machine it works just fine, and Windows 7 doesn't even ask to "Scan and Fix", everything is fine and doing a chkdsk results in all being ok.
It got my attention when I tried to play some videos on my Linux based Sharp HDTV, no files found even though I just copied them from my Windows notebook, so I pulled the flashdrive from the TV, put in back in my Windows notebook and everything was fine, put it in my Linux openSUSE machine and VOILA, no automount, no manual mount, the flash drive is detected but the patition filesystem is not recognized, SBD1 is not available. I then tried and put in my Lubuntu machine, same thing no fs, on Ubuntu machine same thing, so clearly this is something related only to Linux based OSes.
Here are some logs I got from my openSUSE
This is a 4GB FAT32 flash drive with some video files that WORKS just fine under Windows but not in Linux, nor my TV, openSUSE, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.
dmesg
Code:
[22170.806168] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[22170.926024] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=4100
[22170.926028] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[22170.926031] usb 2-1: Product: USB DISK 2.0
[22170.926032] usb 2-1: Manufacturer:
[22170.926034] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 070D27888255C220
[22171.181700] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[22171.181836] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[22171.181925] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[22172.272939] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB DISK 2.0 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[22172.273984] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[22173.235065] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 7579008 512-byte logical blocks: (3.88 GB/3.61 GiB)
[22173.235684] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[22173.235689] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[22173.236353] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[22173.236357] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[22173.261819] sdb: unknown partition table
[22173.265320] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable diskCode:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 13fe:4100 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04e8:3268 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd ML-1610 Mono Laser Printer
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 413c:2501 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hubCode:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes, 312579695 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xed46604b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 4208639 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 4208640 46153727 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 46153728 312578047 133212160 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 3880 MB, 3880452096 bytes, 7579008 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00018a49
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 2048 7579007 3788480 b W95 FAT32Code:
/dev/sda1: UUID="76ec4d66-ed02-4b07-bb1b-51f90dc49446" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda2: UUID="a7f5917d-dba0-4d89-9a6f-79c4547ea314" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda3: UUID="58f62fa4-e31d-4b59-9b44-545b91b769cf" TYPE="ext4"