Description of problem: When I connect my new Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 USB Flash to the computer is ever mounted as read-only. Also, when I access the flash with Konkeror or by console I ever see 3 directory entries and 4 archive entries with unreadable names. The flash is ok, because I've copied archives to the flash in my work :(winXP) without problems and, after, I was able to copy them to my fc6 hard drive. The directory list is showing like this: [root@AMD64x2 media]# ls -l total 32 drwxr-xr-x 8 juan root 16384 ene 1 1970 KINGSTON [root@AMD64x2 media]# ls -l KINGSTON/ total 8496768 ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? ¡3ⁿ┐éä_╪.┐─v -r-xr-xr-x 1 juan root 4097703051 dic 16 1966 æ?╬#╒^╘t.ⁿ┘╪ ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? c|φ¼│sh?.φd█ dr-xr-xr-x 2802955 juan root 362086400 ago 20 1909 $┐êå┬?ï0.!`` -rwxr-xr-x 1 juan root 72283067 abr 17 16:31 Hirens.BootCD.8.9.zip drwxr-xr-x 2177497 juan root 281280512 mar 14 1991 :ö┼º?p}█.úq( -rwxr-xr-x 1 juan root 240525737 ene 18 2020 ò?ÿ;.ra1.╖╘` -r-xr-xr-x 1 juan root 354276606 ene 14 1996 |$?«?$*r.²µz -rwxr-xr-x 1 juan root 6041673 ene 12 2006 scrt504.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 juan root 72151 ene 13 2006 scrt504patch.zip dr-xr-xr-x 3362915 juan root 434503680 ene 18 1964 ╦▓≤üy√à├.σƒ? -r-xr-xr-x 1 juan root 2408218327 feb 19 1945 ┌█{Γm▄«φ.ö4z Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I get the same result with my old FC5 installed onto a i686 Actual results: Today is impossible to me to save or erase data in the USB Flash with both my linux systems: FC5 i686 & FC6 x86_64 Expected results: I expect to use the USB Flash normally: read & write. Thanks in advance Additional info: Here it is the log info on how the system discovers and mounts the Flash Drive: May 15 19:48:06 AMD64x2 kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 May 15 19:48:06 AMD64x2 kernel: usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 15 19:48:06 AMD64x2 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... May 15 19:48:06 AMD64x2 kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 15 19:48:06 AMD64x2 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage May 15 19:48:06 AMD64x2 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: sdb1 May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb May 15 19:48:11 AMD64x2 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 May 15 19:49:03 AMD64x2 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev sdb1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts May 15 19:49:03 AMD64x2 hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500 May 15 19:49:40 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 19:49:40 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 19:49:40 AMD64x2 kernel: File system has been set read-only May 15 19:49:40 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 19:49:40 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 19:51:22 AMD64x2 automount[2559]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process May 15 19:51:22 AMD64x2 automount[2559]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process May 15 19:51:22 AMD64x2 automount[2559]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed for .directory May 15 19:55:48 AMD64x2 hald: unmounted /dev/sdb1 from '/media/KINGSTON' on behalf of uid 500 May 15 19:55:54 AMD64x2 kernel: usb 5-5: USB disconnect, address 3 May 15 20:17:10 AMD64x2 kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 May 15 20:17:10 AMD64x2 kernel: usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 15 20:17:10 AMD64x2 kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sdb: sdb1 May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb May 15 20:17:15 AMD64x2 kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 May 15 20:17:21 AMD64x2 automount[2559]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process May 15 20:17:21 AMD64x2 automount[2559]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process May 15 20:17:21 AMD64x2 automount[2559]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed for .directory May 15 20:17:21 AMD64x2 kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev sdb1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts May 15 20:17:21 AMD64x2 hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500 May 15 20:17:58 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 20:17:58 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 20:17:58 AMD64x2 kernel: File system has been set read-only May 15 20:17:58 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 20:17:58 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 20:21:18 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 20:21:18 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 20:21:18 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 20:21:18 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 20:23:02 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 20:23:02 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) May 15 20:23:02 AMD64x2 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) May 15 20:23:02 AMD64x2 kernel: fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)
Your file system is corrupted; nothing we can do about that (try either to fsck it and/or reformat. Also useful to check the disk for physical errors.)