[YLUG] USB stick weirdness

[Paul Wardman]

And now I buy a new stick, plug it in and it works fine.

Then, just to see what happens, I plug the old one back in again, and it
works absolutely fine.

Computers make my head hurt!

On 11/03/2008, Paul Wardman <paul.wardman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I got the data off it as soon as things started going squiffy.
> Still, it's a pain!
>
> On 11/03/2008, Nicholas Thomas <nick at lupine.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Paul Wardman wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > If you have one SATA drive in your PC (sdax), then future drives will be
> > sdbx, sdcx, etc. The scheme is "drive letter", partition number.
> >
> > Good luck with it, anyways - USB sticks are stupidly cheap these days,
> > so it's not a huge issue if it is broken. As long as you get your data
> > off it well in advance! :)
> >
> >
> > /Nick
> >
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