Aha, thanks for that. However, my SATA harddisk also shows up as /dev/sdaxx, so presumably the USB stick would be a sda bigger than that. <br><br>I've not tried formatting it yet, as my windows 'puter is acting weirdly too (damn I'm having the worst luck with PCs these days) --- I think the PSU is on the way out --- but I'll give it a go next I can. I'll attempt other sticks when I can, but this is on three different machines, one of which, as I said, is the windows machine that can read it (semi-) ok. <br>
<br>Paul<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicholas Thomas</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@lupine.me.uk">nick@lupine.me.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:58 +0000, Paul Wardman wrote:<br> ><br> >> Hi, about the first time I've posted on here, as thankfully my Linux<br> >> experience has been mostly painless (go Ubuntu!).<br>
>><br> >> However, over the last couple of weeks, my USB stick has been acting<br> >> strangely --- at first it would only mount read only, but I soon found<br> >> out that it was due to corrupted files, and because I couldn't get<br>
>> fsck to work on it properly (I suck at finding the correct device<br> >> in /dev for it) chkdsk under windows at cleared things up fine.<br> >><br> >> More recently, though, it's started spontaneously unmounting itself<br>
>> under windows, and Linux machines (three so far, including the dual<br> >> booting windows machine that checked the filesystem) completely fail<br> >> to notice it --- dmesg gives absolutely nothing to do with it.<br>
>><br> >> Any ideas or is it completely messed up? And what could cause that, if<br> >> it is, given nothing really has changed?<br> >><br> >> Cheers,<br> >> Paul<br> >> _______________________________________________<br>
>><br> <br>Harry Mills wrote:<br> > Have you tried reformatting the drive?<br> ><br> > Harry<br> <br> <br>To be honest, it sounds like a hardware fault to me. Do other sticks<br> behave? Incidentally, USB sticks would be /dev/sdxx under any recent<br>
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