Re: USB stick 4GB Kingston not working
On 20/04/2010, at 4:05 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: On Monday 19 April 2010 23:51:21 Sean Howard wrote: I have a Kingston, it has behaved very erratically (and currently lost its partition, leaving the drive unformatted). I've done no research into this, but a similar problem is there. I found formatting it would work for a few days (but didn't want to try harder than that for just a USB drive). Somebody claiming to be Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear friends, Though I find that with each OpenBSD release an increasing array of exotic USB devices are supported, I got the shock of my life with my newly purchased USB stick. This is what I get from USB probing. [snip] Do not discount a bad usb stick. I've seen a few brands which were (or, are) pretty bad. One particular 1G/2G batch of pny sticks had about 50% not working on OpenBSD. I got them to test because they were flaky on Windows, too. I know there are incompatible sticks out there, but I've crashed into just plain badly made hardware, too. I'll second that on PNY mem sticks - got an 8Gb one and it's hopeless! Yer pays yer money and yer takes your choice! --STeve Andre'
Re: USB stick 4GB Kingston not working
On Monday 19 April 2010 23:51:21 Sean Howard wrote: I have a Kingston, it has behaved very erratically (and currently lost its partition, leaving the drive unformatted). I've done no research into this, but a similar problem is there. I found formatting it would work for a few days (but didn't want to try harder than that for just a USB drive). Somebody claiming to be Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear friends, Though I find that with each OpenBSD release an increasing array of exotic USB devices are supported, I got the shock of my life with my newly purchased USB stick. This is what I get from USB probing. [snip] Do not discount a bad usb stick. I've seen a few brands which were (or, are) pretty bad. One particular 1G/2G batch of pny sticks had about 50% not working on OpenBSD. I got them to test because they were flaky on Windows, too. I know there are incompatible sticks out there, but I've crashed into just plain badly made hardware, too. --STeve Andre'
Re: USB stick 4GB Kingston not working
I have a Kingston, it has behaved very erratically (and currently lost its partition, leaving the drive unformatted). I've done no research into this, but a similar problem is there. I found formatting it would work for a few days (but didn't want to try harder than that for just a USB drive). Somebody claiming to be Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear friends, Though I find that with each OpenBSD release an increasing array of exotic USB devices are supported, I got the shock of my life with my newly purchased USB stick. This is what I get from USB probing. umass1 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 Kingston DataTraveler 130 rev 2.00/1.00 addr 3 umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: Kingston, DataTraveler 130, 1.00 SCSI2 0/direct removable Unit test ready failed... sd1: Drive offline Obviously you won't get this message. I tried to hack the kernel to find out what is going on... Shall I wait for May 1 and hope that the problem goes away? Thanks. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com
