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...Blocks Id System /dev/sdj1 1 242252 1953514583+ ee GPT % dd if=/dev/sdj count=1 2> /dev/null | hexdump 0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 00001c0 0002 ffee ffff 0001 0000 88af e8e0 0000 00001d0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 00001f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 aa55 0000200 So far, so normal. This works fine under 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64 Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : active raid5 sdj3[2] sdi2[1] sdk4[3] sdh1[0] 5860537344 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4]...

...fff ffff ffff ................ 00001b0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 00001c0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 00001d0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 00001e0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 00001f0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 0000200: 6e55 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff nU.............. ^^^^^^^ 0000210: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 0000220: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 0000230: ffff ffff ffff ffff...

This past Tuesday (2/22/07) my flash drive started acting really strange - it only worked intermittently and would disappear right after an access or two. Yesterday it stopped working altogether - I couldn't even access it through my WinXP-on-VMWare. I rebooted my machine, and it worked fine after that. Is there some time limit on how long a USB flash drive will work in CentOS or is this a