[YLUG] USB stick weirdness

[Nicholas Thomas]

> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>>     
Harry Mills wrote:
> Have you tried reformatting the drive?
>
> Harry

To be honest, it sounds like a hardware fault to me. Do other sticks
behave? Incidentally, USB sticks would be /dev/sdxx under any recent
kernel.

/Nick