From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 89511] USB-storage mount error Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:11:49 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:45117 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbaLSWLx (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:11:53 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FED120145 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:11:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugzilla2.web.kernel.org (bugzilla2.web.kernel.org [172.20.200.52]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270E720148 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:11:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89511 --- Comment #19 from Alan Stern --- Now I see the problem. Your drive doesn't like the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command; it responds with an error "Illegal request, invalid operation code". It does this even though it claims to have a write cache and therefore to support SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. In short, the bug is in the drive or in its USB interface. You may be able to work around the bug by doing this before you mount it: echo 'temporary write through' >/sys/block/sdb/device/scsi_disk/*/cache_type I don't know if that command will work with your kernel (it should work with 3.10 or later). If it doesn't, try leaving out the word "temporary": echo 'write through' >/sys/block/sdb/device/scsi_disk/*/cache_type -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.