Comments on: What’s wrong with USB 2 on my home machine? http://blog.xcski.com/2007/03/15/whats-wrong-with-usb-2-on-my-home-machine Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:12:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: sweh@livejournal http://blog.xcski.com/2007/03/15/whats-wrong-with-usb-2-on-my-home-machine#comment-18673 sweh@livejournal Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:14:20 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/03/15/whats-wrong-with-usb-2-on-my-home-machine#comment-18673 Mar 15 07:51:30 allhats kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Mar 15 07:51:30 allhats kernel: sd 18:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to device being removed This doesn't look it's a drive issue; it looks like the USB side has decided the device has been removed (unplugged) while still mounted. My machine seems to have a dodgy connector and if I move the cable a little it can happen. The disk goes away and then comes back as a new device (because sda1 was still mounted, it comes back as sdb). Annoying. Mar 15 07:51:30 allhats kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
Mar 15 07:51:30 allhats kernel: sd 18:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to device being removed

This doesn’t look it’s a drive issue; it looks like the USB side has decided the device has been removed (unplugged) while still mounted. My machine seems to have a dodgy connector and if I move the cable a little it can happen. The disk goes away and then comes back as a new device (because sda1 was still mounted, it comes back as sdb). Annoying.

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