USB Hard drive problems

Submitted by andza
on November 10, 2003 - 3:53pm

Hello i have problems with my USB 2.0 HDD on 2.6.0-tes9 kernel. I have a Q-tec device with maxtor 80 GB disk and two partitions on it.
When i mount partitions on it there are no any error messages, but after some time i can't read any information from mounted patitions. And error messages are similar to that:


Nov 7 22:24:46 andza kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through

Nov 7 22:24:46 andza kernel: sdb1 sdb2

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a

hole at offset 0

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: Aborting journal on device sda2.

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 524

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 0

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: ext3_abort called.

Nov 7 22:25:54 andza kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device sda2): ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal



Nov 7 22:26:34 andza kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 19135) failed

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:1260

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: Call Trace:

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] mark_buffer_dirty+0x4a/0x4c

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] journal_update_superblock+0x63/0xd6

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] ext3_destroy_inode+0x1d/0x21

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] journal_destroy+0xf4/0x1d2

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] ext3_put_super+0x29/0x18e

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] generic_shutdown_super+0x191/0x1a1

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] kill_block_super+0x1d/0x48

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] deactivate_super+0x7e/0xe3

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] sys_umount+0x3f/0x9c

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] sys_oldumount+0x17/0x1b

Nov 7 22:26:43 andza kernel: [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

But there are no problems with the same disk on 2.4.22 and 2.4.23-pre9 kernels.