'Create a USB startup disk' killed my memory stick

[Sebastian Spiess]

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Hi all,

I'm a bit confused but I think my memory stick got killed while creating a USB startup disk with the new Ubuntu tool.

I started the usb creator and wanted to create a xubuntu USB dongle, for this I purchased a 4 GB stick. As I wanted it for
nothing serious I thought I go with the cheap USB dongle...

Well now after the USB creator got stuck on 'starting app' or something the USB dongle (straight from the packing) is dead.
I left the USB creator running for several hours as I thought it might need the time but nothing happened.

When I plug the USB dongle in nothing happens, neither in Ubuntu nor in Windows. NO empty partition, corrupted partition
just nothing.

my kernel log shows this and then lots of the FAT: Directory bred... errors

Can anyone tell me what happened here? did I do something wrong? was it just to cheap?

  - seb



usb 5-3: USB disconnect, address 8
Jan  1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.080128] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
Jan  1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.216239] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan  1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.218341] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan  1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.230654] usb-storage: device found at 9
Jan  1 13:00:45 snoopy kernel: [44469.230665] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.228253] usb-storage: device scan complete
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.229422] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Ut165    USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.230899] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 7897088 512-byte hardware sectors (4043 MB)
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.233532] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.233539] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.233543] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.238268] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 7897088 512-byte hardware sectors (4043 MB)
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.242244] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.242253] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.242256] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.244995]  sdd:
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.449132] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan  1 13:00:50 snoopy kernel: [44474.449525] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Jan  1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.945749] FAT: Directory bread(block 15426) failed
Jan  1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.946705] FAT: Directory bread(block 15427) failed
Jan  1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.947576] FAT: Directory bread(block 15428) failed
Jan  1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.948471] FAT: Directory bread(block 15429) failed
Jan  1 13:00:53 snoopy kernel: [44476.949330] FAT: Directory bread(block 15430) failed
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