[YLUG] USB stick weirdness

[Paul Wardman]

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.

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.

Paul

On 10/03/2008, Nicholas Thomas <nick at lupine.me.uk> wrote:
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> > 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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> Harry Mills wrote:
> > Have you tried reformatting the drive?
> >
> > Harry
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> 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
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