On 04/06/2019 11:58, Henri Derksen wrote:
> Hello David,

Any particular David you are aiming at?
> Today I suddenly got a strange problem with an USB stick in my Acorn RiscPC,
> it let the machine hang completely when inserted in an UniPod USB port.
> This stick was less than half full and used very much between RiscPC,
> Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspbian Stretch 2018 and with another old Pi 1B
> running RISC OS 5.24 where my !ROSBink runs for FidoNet now.
> I must have once fortgotten to dismnount before removing,

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> Fist I used FSCK.FAT at the Linux Pi 3B to examine faults after first
> unmouting it, and serveral directories and files were reported defective,
> but could be read normally when mounted, strange. So only one of the twoo
FAT's
> were corrupt I think.

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> So no errors reported anymore.
> But still the Stick hangs my RiscPC with RISC OS 4.04 and UniPod.

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> What can I do to get it working again at my Acorn RiscPC with UniPod?

Two things, it could either be the card has reached end of life and is
now unreliable, or more likely the corruption and repair has left it a
state the RISC OS's FAT32FS doesn't like, even if it appears OK else where.

>
> I have the Fat32Formatter for RISC OS, so I could move the data to another
free
> place, format the stick with Fat32Formatter and copy the data back.
> I.e. only at the RISC OS Pi ofcourse, as the RPC hangs when inserting the
stick
> ;-(.
> But will that be sufficient to get it working again at the RPC?

I recommend reformatting with FAT32Formatter. First RMKill FAT32FS and
DOSFS so you can insert without out RISC OS trying to mount it and hang.
If that still doesn't work, get a new stick, they are cheap enough to
make it not worth wasting much time on.

---druck

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