USB 2.0 external drive silently corrupted

["Dr. C." <dr_aec@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

I have two Maxtor external USB drives which are causing me
problems under various Linux kernels (I’ve tried
2.6.16.53, 2.6.23.1, and 2.6.24-rc2). While these drives work
fine under Windows, under linux I can partition the disks and
format them, but when I attempt to read or write a large quantity
of data, the drive becomes corrupted, the content becomes
trashed and the partition table disappears: I had a detailed
email prepared, but since my email keeps getting rejected due
to rule match, I'll keep this brief: In the system log, the
only thing that appears is an innocuous reset:, but turning on
the kernel-storage-debug flag, we can see a bit more of what is
occurring, something related to ‘3strikes’: Nov
11 19:18:55 www kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: devpath 1 ep8in
3strikesNov 11 19:18:55 www kernel: usb-storage: Status code -71;
transferred 23552/65536Nov 11 19:18:55 www kernel: usb-storage:
-- unknown errorNov 11 19:18:55 www kernel: usb-storage: Bulk
data transfer result 0x4Nov 11 19:18:55 www kernel: usb-storage:
-- transport indicates error, resettingNov 11 19:18:55 www
kernel: usb-storage: storage_pre_resetNov 11 19:18:55 www kernel:
usb-storage: Status code 0; transferred 65536/65536Nov 11
19:18:55 www kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete If this
gets through I'll post more detail. Any suggestions? Is this just
a case of hardware bugs being exposed linux? Should I open a
kernel bug? Thanks for the help, -Dr. C

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