[YLUG] USB stick weirdness

[Harry Mills]

Have you tried reformatting the drive?

Harry
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:58 +0000, Paul Wardman wrote:
> Hi, about the first time I've posted on here, as thankfully my Linux
> experience has been mostly painless (go Ubuntu!).
> 
> However, over the last couple of weeks, my USB stick has been acting
> strangely --- at first it would only mount read only, but I soon found
> out that it was due to corrupted files, and because I couldn't get
> fsck to work on it properly (I suck at finding the correct device
> in /dev for it) chkdsk under windows at cleared things up fine.
> 
> More recently, though, it's started spontaneously unmounting itself
> under windows, and Linux machines (three so far, including the dual
> booting windows machine that checked the filesystem) completely fail
> to notice it --- dmesg gives absolutely nothing to do with it.
> 
> Any ideas or is it completely messed up? And what could cause that, if
> it is, given nothing really has changed?
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
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