can't boot a Mint Cin 17.1 live Sandisk Ultra Fit 3.0 32GB

When I pulled out the drive, I was almost burned by temperature of the metal USB connector.  There is definately a systematic problem with these drives, and this has nothing to do with Linux.

I agree.  USB connectors do not get that warm.  Return it.

http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process

Just bought a SDCZ48-032G from Best Buy today to run Mint 17.1.

Exactly the same problem, but for me the workaround doesn’t work. 

  • Chris

In my prior posts, I noted I had the same boot problem, and couldn’t full-format the drive.  Also the drive was extremely hot.  Same problem with 2 drives.  I just exchanged the drives for 2 new ones.  I still have the same problem booting Mint from an Ultra Fit – which is very disappointing.  The overheating and full-format problems (in Windows) apparently have been fixed in new versions of this device, at least.

Two weeks ago I returned the SanDisk Ultra Fit 32Gb, product code BM150124846D because it would not boot Linux.
Yesterday, I received from SanDisk                            product code BM150224846D
It won’t boot Linux either, no matter what method I use to write the ISO to the disk.
However, no boot problem at all using a PNY 8GB 2.0.
So, the Ultra Fit may be a great drive for storage, just don’t get one to boot an OS.

Thanks,
daBrewer 

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I have received the following feedback from SanDisk:


Dear Nejc,

We understand that you cannot use your Ultra Fit drives as bootable devices. We would like to inform you that we atSanDisk have not tested our flash drive as a bootable device. SanDisk does not provide any utility or instructions to make the flash drives bootable.

So in that case we cannot assist you further with this issue.


Very disappointed.

For my own info nejko did you try the Easy2Boot app to put your Mint on the drive?

daBrewer & nejko, on this Easy2Boot link of tested systems:  http://www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/list-of-tested-payload-files/

"49. Linux Mint   14 Nadia linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-32bit.iso "

If the app didn’t work for your version of Mint contact Steve Si, the creator of Easy2Boot, and he will help you.

Yes, I have have made the SanDisk Ultra Fit 3.0 32GB stick a U2B drive.

I copied the Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1 ISO to the U2B Main Menu.

When I boot the SanDisk USB stick, the U2B Main Menu opens.

I select   “linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-32bit(1)”

I get the “LM” symbol on the screen.

Then  “(intramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system” 

Same as all other tried methods of booting Linux from a SanDisk Ultra Fit.

However, a PNY 2.0 8GB drive boots without fail.

In my previous post I typed U2B instead of E2B (Easy2Boot)

Sorry!

I’ve been having the same problem ever since April 15, when I bought a Sandisk Cruzer Ultra USB 3.0 32GB to which I dd-ed the image of my 16GB SanDisk Cruzer Glide.

I contacted tech support and after arguing with the rep, who was barely knowledgeable regarding anything IT related, I got transferred and the rep came back and said that his supervisor had approved an RMA. I asked if I could just get a reference number for the case, so I could try to debug the problem, and if I wasn’t successful, I’d RMA the drive.

The problem is exactly the same as yours :

/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found

and then, after a while :

(initramfs)Unable to find a medium containing a live file system.

I did extensive debugging : I enabled early kernel debug/printk messages, maximum loglevel, “set -vx” in init and /scripts/casper in a custom initrd.lz and sent everything over to a another machine running “netcat -u -l 6666” with the netconsole directive properly configured on the problem flash drive.

I looked at casper.log but I couldn’t trace down the problem, even with “set -vx” enabled and debugging echos inserted into critical places. The netconsole output did show the possible cause though :

[21.546102] usb 2-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 [26.733116] usb 2-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [26.909409] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci [26.993284] usb 2-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [27.181399] usb 2-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [27.357527] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci [27.773693] usb 2-1.2: device not accepting address 5, error -71 [27.845809] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci [28.262016] usb 2-1.2: device not accepting address 6, error -71 [28.262219] hub 2-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2

So Linux is trying to enumerate the drive but fails, therefore it fails to mount the fat32/vfat partition which contains the filesystem.squashfs and hence “Unable to find a medium containing a live file system.”

I tried this on four different machines, with different hardware.

As a last resort I wanted to rule out the possibility that my byte-by-byte copy from the previous drive had somehow screwed up the new drive’s bootup process, so I wiped the disk and performed a fresh install of Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64-bit using Unetbootin – same result, on all 4 different machines.

Today I RMA-ed the drive. I own dozens of flash sticks and I have never had a problem with any of them booting Linux. If SanDisk produces devices that somehow deviate from the official USB spec, then I’d strongly recommend anyone looking to boot Linux off of a USB flash drive select another manufacturer. We’ll see – In my RMA I said I wanted a drive with the same specs but with its firmware updated so as to support booting Linux.

Regards,

jdb2 

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Impressive debugging jdb2

IMO Rather than hardware issues possible problem areas include USB 3.0 drivers for Unetbootin and Cinnamon, 64-bit drivers for Unetbootin and Cinnamon and Unetbootin and Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64-bit themselves. 

Try using a different boot utility, see if that helps.  I like Easy2Boot.  Try using Cinnamon 17.1 32-bit version. 

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@ed_p wrote:

Impressive debugging jdb2

 

IMO Rather than hardware issues possible problem areas include USB 3.0 drivers for Unetbootin and Cinnamon, 64-bit drivers for Unetbootin and Cinnamon and Unetbootin and Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64-bit themselves. 

 

Try using a different boot utility, see if that helps.  I like Easy2Boot.  Try using Cinnamon 17.1 32-bit version. 

You’re welcome :slight_smile:

In “hardware issues,”  I didn’t mean to say that the drive is defective per se, but that it is somehow incompatible with the Linux boot process, due to a deviation from the USB 3.0 spec – I have several other USB 3.0 drives which boot this version of Mint just fine.

To this end, I plugged the drive into two systems which were only USB 2.0 capable. I got the same results. I tried enabling and disabling all combination s of “BIOS EHCI Handoff,” “BIOS XHCI Handoff,” “Legacy USB emulation” and “Legacy floppy drive emulation,” all with the same results. Then I tried to boot the drive in a system with native USB 3.0 ports which was configured to use UEFI. This time I got a Grub boot prompt, but the end result was the same : “unable to find live file system” . I then disabled and enabled all combinations of the aforementioned settings, with no success. So, I turned UEFI off – no success. I then disabled USB 3.0 in the BIOS and told it to emulate a USB 2.0 controller – still no success.

I could grab the latest upstream mainline kernel source for Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit, configure the kernel with USB 3.0 support turned off  ( #CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD ), compile said kernel, and remaster a new Mint live DVD. But, I’ve already wiped the drive I’m RMA-ing and I intend to return it soon, so there’s no point in going through the trouble with this particular drive. If the replacement has the same problems, I’ll do the above.

Regards,

jdb2

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Thanks for the pointers Jdb, now it makes a whole lot of sense.

@sauberlime wrote:

Thanks for the pointers Jdb, now it makes a whole lot of sense.

I have an autism spectrum disorder ( Asperger’s ), so I may be way off on this, but do I detect a hint of sarcasm or facetiousness? :stuck_out_tongue: I know I went out on a technical tangent. :wink:

Regards,

jdb2

jdb2 , when you get your new drive be sure to clone it.  And do a hex display of the first block.  The first block will either appear as a MBR or a BPB (Bios Parameter Block) of a “superfloppy”.

@ed_p wrote:

jdb2 , when you get your new drive be sure to clone it.  And do a hex display of the first block.  The first block will either appear as a MBR or a BPB (Bios Parameter Block) of a “superfloppy”.

Thanks for the tip! :smiley: When I receive the RMA-ed replacement drive I’ll clone it and perform a hex dump – I’ll post the results, or a link to the results, in this thread.

Regards,

jdb2

Well, I received the RMA-ed drive today. It looks like the last Ultra drive except the new one has a read activity led that is red and that blinks more rapidly. Also, the read speed is at least twice as fast.

Here’s some information about the drive :

mint@mint ~ $ sudo smartctl -a -T verypermissive -d scsi /dev/sdg smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86\_64-linux-3.13.0-37-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SanDisk Product: SanDisk Ultra Revision: PMAP User Capacity: 31,625,052,160 bytes [31.6 GB] Logical block size: 512 bytes scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Logical Unit id: [censored for privacy reasons] Serial number: [censored for privacy reasons] Device type: disk scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Local Time is: Fri May 22 18:33:08 2015 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Device does not support Self Test logging

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ file sandisk-ultra-rma.img sandisk-ultra-rma.img: x86 boot sector

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo udevadm info --query=all --name=sdg P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg N: sdg S: disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdg E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID\_BUS=usb E: ID\_INSTANCE=0:0 E: ID\_MODEL=SanDisk\_Ultra E: ID\_MODEL\_ENC=SanDisk\x20Ultra\x20\x20\x20 E: ID\_MODEL\_ID=5581 E: ID\_PART\_TABLE\_TYPE=dos E: ID\_PATH=pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: ID\_PATH\_TAG=pci-0000\_00\_1a\_7-usb-0\_2\_1\_0-scsi-0\_0\_0\_0 E: ID\_REVISION=PMAP E: ID\_SERIAL=SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 E: ID\_SERIAL\_SHORT=[censored for privacy reasons] E: ID\_TYPE=disk E: ID\_USB\_DRIVER=usb-storage E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACES=:080650: E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACE\_NUM=00 E: ID\_VENDOR=SanDisk E: ID\_VENDOR\_ENC=SanDisk\x20 E: ID\_VENDOR\_ID=0781 E: MAJOR=8 E: MINOR=96 E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr E: UDISKS\_PRESENTATION\_NOPOLICY=0 E: USEC\_INITIALIZED=83772257093

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo /lib/udev/udisks-part-id /dev/sdg using device\_file=/dev/sdg syspath=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg, offset=0 ao=0 and number=0 for /dev/sdg Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=31625052160) MSDOS\_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 4128768, size 31620923392, type 0x0c) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1

int@mint ~ $ file sector0.bin sector0.bin: x86 boot sector

mint@mint ~ $ hexdump -C sector0.bin 00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 50 07 50 1f fc be 1b 7c |3.....|.P.P....|| 00000010 bf 1b 06 50 57 b9 e5 01 f3 a4 cb bd be 07 b1 04 |...PW...........| 00000020 38 6e 00 7c 09 75 13 83 c5 10 e2 f4 cd 18 8b f5 |8n.|.u..........| 00000030 83 c6 10 49 74 19 38 2c 74 f6 a0 b5 07 b4 07 8b |...It.8,t.......| 00000040 f0 ac 3c 00 74 fc bb 07 00 b4 0e cd 10 eb f2 88 |..\<.t...........| 00000050 4e 10 e8 46 00 73 2a fe 46 10 80 7e 04 0b 74 0b |N..F.s\*.F..~..t.| 00000060 80 7e 04 0c 74 05 a0 b6 07 75 d2 80 46 02 06 83 |.~..t....u..F...| 00000070 46 08 06 83 56 0a 00 e8 21 00 73 05 a0 b6 07 eb |F...V...!.s.....| 00000080 bc 81 3e fe 7d 55 aa 74 0b 80 7e 10 00 74 c8 a0 |..\>.}U.t..~..t..| 00000090 b7 07 eb a9 8b fc 1e 57 8b f5 cb bf 05 00 8a 56 |.......W.......V| 000000a0 00 b4 08 cd 13 72 23 8a c1 24 3f 98 8a de 8a fc |.....r#..$?.....| 000000b0 43 f7 e3 8b d1 86 d6 b1 06 d2 ee 42 f7 e2 39 56 |C..........B..9V| 000000c0 0a 77 23 72 05 39 46 08 73 1c b8 01 02 bb 00 7c |.w#r.9F.s......|| 000000d0 8b 4e 02 8b 56 00 cd 13 73 51 4f 74 4e 32 e4 8a |.N..V...sQOtN2..| 000000e0 56 00 cd 13 eb e4 8a 56 00 60 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd |V......V.`..U.A.| 000000f0 13 72 36 81 fb 55 aa 75 30 f6 c1 01 74 2b 61 60 |.r6..U.u0...t+a`| 00000100 6a 00 6a 00 ff 76 0a ff 76 08 6a 00 68 00 7c 6a |j.j..v..v.j.h.|j| 00000110 01 6a 10 b4 42 8b f4 cd 13 61 61 73 0e 4f 74 0b |.j..B....aas.Ot.| 00000120 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 eb d6 61 f9 c3 49 6e 76 61 |2..V.....a..Inva| 00000130 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 |lid partition ta| 00000140 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e |ble.Error loadin| 00000150 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst| 00000160 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 |em.Missing opera| 00000170 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 |ting system.....| 00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 2c 44 63 98 bd 06 8b 00 00 00 00 |.....,Dc........| 000001c0 01 01 0c 57 58 ea 80 1f 00 00 80 60 ae 03 00 00 |...WX......`....| 000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200

Here’s a link to the raw dump of sector 0 : https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyc2anegzxqv3vd/sector0.zip?dl=0

So, now to test if it will boot Linux. :smiley:

Regards,

jdb2

Well, I received the RMA-ed drive today. It looks like the last Ultra drive except the new one has a read activity led that is red and that blinks more rapidly. Also, the read speed is at least twice as fast.

Here’s some information about the drive :

mint@mint ~ $ sudo smartctl -a -T verypermissive -d scsi /dev/sdg smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86\_64-linux-3.13.0-37-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SanDisk Product: SanDisk Ultra Revision: PMAP User Capacity: 31,625,052,160 bytes [31.6 GB] Logical block size: 512 bytes scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Logical Unit id: [censored for privacy reasons] Serial number: [censored for privacy reasons] Device type: disk scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Local Time is: Fri May 22 18:33:08 2015 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Device does not support Self Test logging

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ file sandisk-ultra-rma.img sandisk-ultra-rma.img: x86 boot sector

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo udevadm info --query=all --name=sdg P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg N: sdg S: disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdg E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID\_BUS=usb E: ID\_INSTANCE=0:0 E: ID\_MODEL=SanDisk\_Ultra E: ID\_MODEL\_ENC=SanDisk\x20Ultra\x20\x20\x20 E: ID\_MODEL\_ID=5581 E: ID\_PART\_TABLE\_TYPE=dos E: ID\_PATH=pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: ID\_PATH\_TAG=pci-0000\_00\_1a\_7-usb-0\_2\_1\_0-scsi-0\_0\_0\_0 E: ID\_REVISION=PMAP E: ID\_SERIAL=SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 E: ID\_SERIAL\_SHORT=[censored for privacy reasons] E: ID\_TYPE=disk E: ID\_USB\_DRIVER=usb-storage E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACES=:080650: E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACE\_NUM=00 E: ID\_VENDOR=SanDisk E: ID\_VENDOR\_ENC=SanDisk\x20 E: ID\_VENDOR\_ID=0781 E: MAJOR=8 E: MINOR=96 E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr E: UDISKS\_PRESENTATION\_NOPOLICY=0 E: USEC\_INITIALIZED=83772257093

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo /lib/udev/udisks-part-id /dev/sdg using device\_file=/dev/sdg syspath=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg, offset=0 ao=0 and number=0 for /dev/sdg Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=31625052160) MSDOS\_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 4128768, size 31620923392, type 0x0c) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1

int@mint ~ $ file sector0.bin sector0.bin: x86 boot sector

mint@mint ~ $ hexdump -C sector0.bin 00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 50 07 50 1f fc be 1b 7c |3.....|.P.P....|| 00000010 bf 1b 06 50 57 b9 e5 01 f3 a4 cb bd be 07 b1 04 |...PW...........| 00000020 38 6e 00 7c 09 75 13 83 c5 10 e2 f4 cd 18 8b f5 |8n.|.u..........| 00000030 83 c6 10 49 74 19 38 2c 74 f6 a0 b5 07 b4 07 8b |...It.8,t.......| 00000040 f0 ac 3c 00 74 fc bb 07 00 b4 0e cd 10 eb f2 88 |..\<.t...........| 00000050 4e 10 e8 46 00 73 2a fe 46 10 80 7e 04 0b 74 0b |N..F.s\*.F..~..t.| 00000060 80 7e 04 0c 74 05 a0 b6 07 75 d2 80 46 02 06 83 |.~..t....u..F...| 00000070 46 08 06 83 56 0a 00 e8 21 00 73 05 a0 b6 07 eb |F...V...!.s.....| 00000080 bc 81 3e fe 7d 55 aa 74 0b 80 7e 10 00 74 c8 a0 |..\>.}U.t..~..t..| 00000090 b7 07 eb a9 8b fc 1e 57 8b f5 cb bf 05 00 8a 56 |.......W.......V| 000000a0 00 b4 08 cd 13 72 23 8a c1 24 3f 98 8a de 8a fc |.....r#..$?.....| 000000b0 43 f7 e3 8b d1 86 d6 b1 06 d2 ee 42 f7 e2 39 56 |C..........B..9V| 000000c0 0a 77 23 72 05 39 46 08 73 1c b8 01 02 bb 00 7c |.w#r.9F.s......|| 000000d0 8b 4e 02 8b 56 00 cd 13 73 51 4f 74 4e 32 e4 8a |.N..V...sQOtN2..| 000000e0 56 00 cd 13 eb e4 8a 56 00 60 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd |V......V.`..U.A.| 000000f0 13 72 36 81 fb 55 aa 75 30 f6 c1 01 74 2b 61 60 |.r6..U.u0...t+a`| 00000100 6a 00 6a 00 ff 76 0a ff 76 08 6a 00 68 00 7c 6a |j.j..v..v.j.h.|j| 00000110 01 6a 10 b4 42 8b f4 cd 13 61 61 73 0e 4f 74 0b |.j..B....aas.Ot.| 00000120 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 eb d6 61 f9 c3 49 6e 76 61 |2..V.....a..Inva| 00000130 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 |lid partition ta| 00000140 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e |ble.Error loadin| 00000150 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst| 00000160 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 |em.Missing opera| 00000170 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 |ting system.....| 00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 2c 44 63 98 bd 06 8b 00 00 00 00 |.....,Dc........| 000001c0 01 01 0c 57 58 ea 80 1f 00 00 80 60 ae 03 00 00 |...WX......`....| 000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200

Here’s a link to the raw dump of sector 0 : https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyc2anegzxqv3vd/sector0.zip?dl=0

So, now to test if it will boot Linux. :smiley:

Regards,

jdb2

Well, I received the RMA-ed drive today. It looks like the last Ultra drive except the new one has a read activity led that is red and that blinks more rapidly. Also, the read speed is at least twice as fast.

Here’s some information about the drive :

mint@mint ~ $ sudo smartctl -a -T verypermissive -d scsi /dev/sdg smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86\_64-linux-3.13.0-37-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SanDisk Product: SanDisk Ultra Revision: PMAP User Capacity: 31,625,052,160 bytes [31.6 GB] Logical block size: 512 bytes scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Logical Unit id: [censored for privacy reasons] Serial number: [censored for privacy reasons] Device type: disk scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Local Time is: Fri May 22 18:33:08 2015 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Device does not support Self Test logging

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ file sandisk-ultra-rma.img sandisk-ultra-rma.img: x86 boot sector

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo udevadm info --query=all --name=sdg P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg N: sdg S: disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdg E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID\_BUS=usb E: ID\_INSTANCE=0:0 E: ID\_MODEL=SanDisk\_Ultra E: ID\_MODEL\_ENC=SanDisk\x20Ultra\x20\x20\x20 E: ID\_MODEL\_ID=5581 E: ID\_PART\_TABLE\_TYPE=dos E: ID\_PATH=pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: ID\_PATH\_TAG=pci-0000\_00\_1a\_7-usb-0\_2\_1\_0-scsi-0\_0\_0\_0 E: ID\_REVISION=PMAP E: ID\_SERIAL=SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 E: ID\_SERIAL\_SHORT=[censored for privacy reasons] E: ID\_TYPE=disk E: ID\_USB\_DRIVER=usb-storage E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACES=:080650: E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACE\_NUM=00 E: ID\_VENDOR=SanDisk E: ID\_VENDOR\_ENC=SanDisk\x20 E: ID\_VENDOR\_ID=0781 E: MAJOR=8 E: MINOR=96 E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr E: UDISKS\_PRESENTATION\_NOPOLICY=0 E: USEC\_INITIALIZED=83772257093

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo /lib/udev/udisks-part-id /dev/sdg using device\_file=/dev/sdg syspath=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg, offset=0 ao=0 and number=0 for /dev/sdg Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=31625052160) MSDOS\_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 4128768, size 31620923392, type 0x0c) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1

int@mint ~ $ file sector0.bin sector0.bin: x86 boot sector

mint@mint ~ $ hexdump -C sector0.bin 00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 50 07 50 1f fc be 1b 7c |3.....|.P.P....|| 00000010 bf 1b 06 50 57 b9 e5 01 f3 a4 cb bd be 07 b1 04 |...PW...........| 00000020 38 6e 00 7c 09 75 13 83 c5 10 e2 f4 cd 18 8b f5 |8n.|.u..........| 00000030 83 c6 10 49 74 19 38 2c 74 f6 a0 b5 07 b4 07 8b |...It.8,t.......| 00000040 f0 ac 3c 00 74 fc bb 07 00 b4 0e cd 10 eb f2 88 |..\<.t...........| 00000050 4e 10 e8 46 00 73 2a fe 46 10 80 7e 04 0b 74 0b |N..F.s\*.F..~..t.| 00000060 80 7e 04 0c 74 05 a0 b6 07 75 d2 80 46 02 06 83 |.~..t....u..F...| 00000070 46 08 06 83 56 0a 00 e8 21 00 73 05 a0 b6 07 eb |F...V...!.s.....| 00000080 bc 81 3e fe 7d 55 aa 74 0b 80 7e 10 00 74 c8 a0 |..\>.}U.t..~..t..| 00000090 b7 07 eb a9 8b fc 1e 57 8b f5 cb bf 05 00 8a 56 |.......W.......V| 000000a0 00 b4 08 cd 13 72 23 8a c1 24 3f 98 8a de 8a fc |.....r#..$?.....| 000000b0 43 f7 e3 8b d1 86 d6 b1 06 d2 ee 42 f7 e2 39 56 |C..........B..9V| 000000c0 0a 77 23 72 05 39 46 08 73 1c b8 01 02 bb 00 7c |.w#r.9F.s......|| 000000d0 8b 4e 02 8b 56 00 cd 13 73 51 4f 74 4e 32 e4 8a |.N..V...sQOtN2..| 000000e0 56 00 cd 13 eb e4 8a 56 00 60 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd |V......V.`..U.A.| 000000f0 13 72 36 81 fb 55 aa 75 30 f6 c1 01 74 2b 61 60 |.r6..U.u0...t+a`| 00000100 6a 00 6a 00 ff 76 0a ff 76 08 6a 00 68 00 7c 6a |j.j..v..v.j.h.|j| 00000110 01 6a 10 b4 42 8b f4 cd 13 61 61 73 0e 4f 74 0b |.j..B....aas.Ot.| 00000120 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 eb d6 61 f9 c3 49 6e 76 61 |2..V.....a..Inva| 00000130 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 |lid partition ta| 00000140 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e |ble.Error loadin| 00000150 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst| 00000160 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 |em.Missing opera| 00000170 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 |ting system.....| 00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 2c 44 63 98 bd 06 8b 00 00 00 00 |.....,Dc........| 000001c0 01 01 0c 57 58 ea 80 1f 00 00 80 60 ae 03 00 00 |...WX......`....| 000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200

Here’s a link to the raw dump of sector 0 : sector0.zip

So, now to test if it will boot Linux. :smiley:

Regards,

jdb2

You know, I buy a SanDisk product for close to $30, I go through the trouble of trying to troubleshoot the product by providing as much information to the community as possible, I go through the trouble of RMA-ing the drive, and then, when the new RMA-ed drive arrives, I post extensive information about the drive as a reply to a request by another forum member, only to have my post deleted by some smart*** moderator, without any warning to me, or e-mail or explanation. So, here we go again. I’ll see if I can’t reproduce my message as closely as possibly to the original :

I received the RMA-ed drive. The drive looks the same, except that the activity LED has been moved towered the lowe left, it’s read/orange instead of blue and it blinks more rapidly. Also, I noticed that the read speed was at least twice that of the drive which I RMA-ed.

Here’s some info on the drive :

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ file sandisk-ultra-rma.img sandisk-ultra-rma.img: x86 boot sector

mint@mint ~ $ file sector0.bin sector0.bin: x86 boot sector

mint@mint ~ $ sudo smartctl -a -T verypermissive -d scsi /dev/sdg smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86\_64-linux-3.13.0-37-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: SanDisk Product: SanDisk Ultra Revision: PMAP User Capacity: 31,625,052,160 bytes [31.6 GB] Logical block size: 512 bytes scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Logical Unit id: [censored for privacy reasons] Serial number: [censored for privacy reasons] Device type: disk scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Local Time is: Fri May 22 18:33:08 2015 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp\_len=4 offset=12 bd\_len=8 Device does not support Self Test logging

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo udevadm info --query=all --name=sdg P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg N: sdg S: disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdg E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID\_BUS=usb E: ID\_INSTANCE=0:0 E: ID\_MODEL=SanDisk\_Ultra E: ID\_MODEL\_ENC=SanDisk\x20Ultra\x20\x20\x20 E: ID\_MODEL\_ID=5581 E: ID\_PART\_TABLE\_TYPE=dos E: ID\_PATH=pci-0000:00:1a.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: ID\_PATH\_TAG=pci-0000\_00\_1a\_7-usb-0\_2\_1\_0-scsi-0\_0\_0\_0 E: ID\_REVISION=PMAP E: ID\_SERIAL=SanDisk\_SanDisk\_Ultra\_[censored for privacy reasons]-0:0 E: ID\_SERIAL\_SHORT=[censored for privacy reasons] E: ID\_TYPE=disk E: ID\_USB\_DRIVER=usb-storage E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACES=:080650: E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACE\_NUM=00 E: ID\_VENDOR=SanDisk E: ID\_VENDOR\_ENC=SanDisk\x20 E: ID\_VENDOR\_ID=0781 E: MAJOR=8 E: MINOR=96 E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1 E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr E: UDISKS\_PRESENTATION\_NOPOLICY=0 E: USEC\_INITIALIZED=83772257093

mint@mint /media/mint/c6dc16a4-8ea0-470c-a196-d1eb5c84a170 $ sudo /lib/udev/udisks-part-id /dev/sdg using device\_file=/dev/sdg syspath=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host19/target19:0:0/19:0:0:0/block/sdg, offset=0 ao=0 and number=0 for /dev/sdg Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=31625052160) MSDOS\_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 4128768, size 31620923392, type 0x0c) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1 UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1

mint@mint ~ $ hexdump -C sector0.bin 00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 50 07 50 1f fc be 1b 7c |3.....|.P.P....|| 00000010 bf 1b 06 50 57 b9 e5 01 f3 a4 cb bd be 07 b1 04 |...PW...........| 00000020 38 6e 00 7c 09 75 13 83 c5 10 e2 f4 cd 18 8b f5 |8n.|.u..........| 00000030 83 c6 10 49 74 19 38 2c 74 f6 a0 b5 07 b4 07 8b |...It.8,t.......| 00000040 f0 ac 3c 00 74 fc bb 07 00 b4 0e cd 10 eb f2 88 |..\<.t...........| 00000050 4e 10 e8 46 00 73 2a fe 46 10 80 7e 04 0b 74 0b |N..F.s\*.F..~..t.| 00000060 80 7e 04 0c 74 05 a0 b6 07 75 d2 80 46 02 06 83 |.~..t....u..F...| 00000070 46 08 06 83 56 0a 00 e8 21 00 73 05 a0 b6 07 eb |F...V...!.s.....| 00000080 bc 81 3e fe 7d 55 aa 74 0b 80 7e 10 00 74 c8 a0 |..\>.}U.t..~..t..| 00000090 b7 07 eb a9 8b fc 1e 57 8b f5 cb bf 05 00 8a 56 |.......W.......V| 000000a0 00 b4 08 cd 13 72 23 8a c1 24 3f 98 8a de 8a fc |.....r#..$?.....| 000000b0 43 f7 e3 8b d1 86 d6 b1 06 d2 ee 42 f7 e2 39 56 |C..........B..9V| 000000c0 0a 77 23 72 05 39 46 08 73 1c b8 01 02 bb 00 7c |.w#r.9F.s......|| 000000d0 8b 4e 02 8b 56 00 cd 13 73 51 4f 74 4e 32 e4 8a |.N..V...sQOtN2..| 000000e0 56 00 cd 13 eb e4 8a 56 00 60 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd |V......V.`..U.A.| 000000f0 13 72 36 81 fb 55 aa 75 30 f6 c1 01 74 2b 61 60 |.r6..U.u0...t+a`| 00000100 6a 00 6a 00 ff 76 0a ff 76 08 6a 00 68 00 7c 6a |j.j..v..v.j.h.|j| 00000110 01 6a 10 b4 42 8b f4 cd 13 61 61 73 0e 4f 74 0b |.j..B....aas.Ot.| 00000120 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 eb d6 61 f9 c3 49 6e 76 61 |2..V.....a..Inva| 00000130 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 |lid partition ta| 00000140 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e |ble.Error loadin| 00000150 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst| 00000160 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 |em.Missing opera| 00000170 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 |ting system.....| 00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 2c 44 63 98 bd 06 8b 00 00 00 00 |.....,Dc........| 000001c0 01 01 0c 57 58 ea 80 1f 00 00 80 60 ae 03 00 00 |...WX......`....| 000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| \* 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200

I’ve already installed Linux, via dd-ing my old Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit Cinnamon Live USB install from a USB 2.0 16GB SanDisk Cruzer flash drive to the new, RMA-ed, 32GB USB 3.0 SanDisk Cruzer Ultra. I’ll test if it boots off of the new drive shortly.

Instead of posting a link to the zipped sector 0, I’ll uuencode it and post it as a code comment below ( use uudecode to get the binary ) :

begin-base64 644 sector0-uudecoded.bin M8CO0LwAfPtQB1Af/L4bfL8bBlBXueUB86TLvb4HsQQ4bgB8CXUTg8UQ4vTN GIv1g8YQSXQZOCx09qC1B7QHi/CsPAB0/LsHALQOzRDr8ohOEOhGAHMq/kYQ gH4EC3QLgH4EDHQFoLYHddKARgIGg0YIBoNWCgDoIQBzBaC2B+u8gT7+fVWq dAuAfhAAdMigtwfrqYv8HleL9cu/BQCKVgC0CM0TciOKwSQ/mIreivxD9+OL 0YbWsQbS7kL34jlWCncjcgU5RghzHLgBArsAfItOAotWAM0Tc1FPdE4y5IpW AM0T6+SKVgBgu6pVtEHNE3I2gftVqnUw9sEBdCthYGoAagD/dgr/dghqAGgA fGoBahC0Qov0zRNhYXMOT3QLMuSKVgDNE+vWYfnDSW52YWxpZCBwYXJ0aXRp b24gdGFibGUARXJyb3IgbG9hZGluZyBvcGVyYXRpbmcgc3lzdGVtAE1pc3Np bmcgb3BlcmF0aW5nIHN5c3RlbQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAsRGOYvQaLAAAAAAEB DFdY6oAfAACAYK4DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVao= ====

I’m saving the HTML source of this message, in case someone tries to delete my posts again, for no good reason.

Regards,

jdb2