Lockup on Access to USB Hard Drive

[Todd Deshane]

On 6/30/05, Jason Voegele <jason at jvoegele.com> wrote:
> 
> I've got an iRiver H340 digital music player. One of the nice things
> about this particular player is that when you plug it in to the USB port
> of the computer, it shows up as a regular hard drive (FAT).
> 
> When I plug in the device, a device icon called 'H300' shows up on my
> Gnome desktop and a Nautilus window opens showing the contents of the
> iRiver hard drive root folder. So far so good.
> 
> The directory structure looks like this:
> 
> /media/H300
> |
> |--- Music
> | |
> | |--- (~100 subdirectories)
> |--- pictures
> | |
> | |--- (a few files, no subdirs)
> |--- recordings
> | |
> | |--- audio
> | | |
> | | |--- (a few files, no subdirs)
> | |
> | |--- voice
> | | |
> | | |--- (a few files, no subdirs)
> |
> |--- (a few miscellaneous files)
> 
> For the most part, I can interact with the device just fine. I can view,
> add, and remove files from the device with no problem...except for the
> Music subdirectory. Whenever I try to access the Music directory, i.e. an
> 'ls' command or opening the folder with Nautilus, it hangs forever. When
> I check the status of the command in gnome-system-monitor its status is
> displayed as "Uninterruptible". This happens only with the Music
> directory. All other directories are fine.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I know that it's
> not a hardware problem because I can play the music in the Music folder of
> the devic just fine, and also because I can browse the folder without any
> problem on Windows.
> 
> Any thoughts?


Try running strace ls (instead of just ls)
that will give you an idea if it is is hanging or just spinning.

CAUTION: that will produce _lots_ of output no need to post
that on the list, it may clue you into what is going on and then
you could post relevant peices if something looks fishy.
Regards,
Todd

Thanks!
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