plugging in USB and no disk there

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 15:54, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I plug in a USB disk (4T) disk and dmesg shows me this:

OK, this line:

> [ 9534.572373] sda: detected capacity change from 34359738369 to 0

... is bad. You can't do anything with a zero-blocks disk!

But this may be why:

> [ 9540.605521] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size 8422320.

That is not right.

Either 512 bytes or 4 kB is normal.

Anything else, pretty much, is wrong.

Your USB connection is bad. Bad case, bad port, bad cable; I don't
know but it's bad somewhere.

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