This visually nasty bug confirmed here with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, kernel 2.6.26-4-generic, and Gnome 2.23.5. My Western Digital 120GB external USB harddrive pops up with two desktop icons and the above error - but is nevertheless acessible without any problems. Here the dmesg output:
[ 507.748045] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 507.882720] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 507.934322] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 507.941932] usb-storage: device found at 5
[ 507.941942] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 512.940283] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 512.942647] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD12 00UE-00KVT0 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 512.944387] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 512.945260] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 512.945270] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 512.945276] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 512.957293] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 512.960829] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 512.960835] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 512.960839] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 512.960844] sdb: sdb1
[ 513.015882] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 513.015936] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 513.555981] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 513.556285] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[ 513.556988] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[ 513.556996] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
This visually nasty bug confirmed here with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, kernel 2.6.26-4-generic, and Gnome 2.23.5. My Western Digital 120GB external USB harddrive pops up with two desktop icons and the above error - but is nevertheless acessible without any problems. Here the dmesg output:
[ 507.748045] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 507.882720] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 507.934322] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 507.941932] usb-storage: device found at 5
[ 507.941942] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 512.940283] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 512.942647] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD12 00UE-00KVT0 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 512.944387] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 512.945260] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 512.945270] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 512.945276] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 512.957293] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 512.960829] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 512.960835] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
[ 512.960839] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 512.960844] sdb: sdb1
[ 513.015882] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 513.015936] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 513.555981] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 513.556285] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[ 513.556988] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[ 513.556996] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.