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Crucial 128G flastick USB problem could be software



 
 
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Old September 23rd 20, 09:32 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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Default Crucial 128G flastick USB problem could be software


Seems it will pick-up its own USB identity, not just sit there for
long periods trying to access itself, (a bright LED lite on it helps
me see when there's that issue), by first sticking in another
flashstick.

Something that looks to affect software resetting or hanging up on a
cache issue after the Crucial has sat awhile, and I pull it to write
some additional data,, whereupon sticking it back in with a revised
contents becomes an identity issue. Sometimes to often.

As I said, I instead stick in say a cheap 4G flashstick, anything I
else suppose, which picks up to correctly identify, pull it and
replace with the Crucial that then identifies to read its contents
without a problem.

So far, worked a couple times anyway, the Flashstick Shake and Bake
routine, which I can live with if that's all it takes to keep the
Crucial going. 128G is a some sort of fancy flashstick even if I'm
not fully utilizing all of it. Besides, it's fast.

I've a pair of smaller 64G flashstick different manufacturer for
alternative brandmakes, but they're slow enough to where I might not
want them as a replacement for decent speeds I get off the Crucial.
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Old September 23rd 20, 10:10 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Paul[_28_]
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Default Crucial 128G flastick USB problem could be software

Flasherly wrote:
Seems it will pick-up its own USB identity, not just sit there for
long periods trying to access itself, (a bright LED lite on it helps
me see when there's that issue), by first sticking in another
flashstick.

Something that looks to affect software resetting or hanging up on a
cache issue after the Crucial has sat awhile, and I pull it to write
some additional data,, whereupon sticking it back in with a revised
contents becomes an identity issue. Sometimes to often.

As I said, I instead stick in say a cheap 4G flashstick, anything I
else suppose, which picks up to correctly identify, pull it and
replace with the Crucial that then identifies to read its contents
without a problem.

So far, worked a couple times anyway, the Flashstick Shake and Bake
routine, which I can live with if that's all it takes to keep the
Crucial going. 128G is a some sort of fancy flashstick even if I'm
not fully utilizing all of it. Besides, it's fast.

I've a pair of smaller 64G flashstick different manufacturer for
alternative brandmakes, but they're slow enough to where I might not
want them as a replacement for decent speeds I get off the Crucial.


Check in Device Manager.

It shouldn't really have a Power Management tab for the Crucial device.
But check anyway. If so, don't allow the computer to turn it off.

If the USB port is a USB3 port from a PCI Express card, make
sure the USB3 card is not taking a snooze on you. Maybe it
has a Power Management tab for the hub or something.

There really isn't a good excuse for it falling asleep like that.
Just make sure there hasn't been a recent "technical improvement"
that has ruined things.

Paul
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Old September 23rd 20, 11:19 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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Default Crucial 128G flastick USB problem could be software

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:10:21 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Check in Device Manager.

It shouldn't really have a Power Management tab for the Crucial device.
But check anyway. If so, don't allow the computer to turn it off.

If the USB port is a USB3 port from a PCI Express card, make
sure the USB3 card is not taking a snooze on you. Maybe it
has a Power Management tab for the hub or something.

There really isn't a good excuse for it falling asleep like that.
Just make sure there hasn't been a recent "technical improvement"
that has ruined things.


It's not really falling asleep.

As I said there's a great little LED light on the Crucial much as MB
pin-connections controls for the front panel HDD activity.

The Crucial slugs itself into a steady LED light, cycling a few
milliseconds briefly off for then continued two, three seconds of
steady on at a failed-access state.

I then reinsert it (or "clear it" with another flashstick), in any
event hopefully for a good connect and identity routine: A good
flashstick connection is that the LED stays on briefly, whereupon it
begins flashing for perhaps ten or so times. LED-offs being instead
the millisecond "bursts", whereupon an Explorer instance pops up to
identify the drive contents. I'm often shuffling that Crucial,
transferring or looking at data between two computers.

I also just went through to turn off, or so attempted, any further
Explorer file-association activity with the drive letter Crucial
usually gets assigned.

I though interesting, nonetheless, how inserting another flashdrive
seemed to jolt back the USB identity protocol for initializing a
recently removed and edited drive, by itself that will often refuse to
be identified.
 




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