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Re: [LUG] Memory stick not recognised

 

On 23/08/13 18:10, bad apple wrote:
On 23/08/13 17:35, Neil wrote:
Thanks, here is what I think are the relevant lines.

Neil

Well, it seems to be recognising an 8Gb Kingston drive being initialized
at /dev/sdb, and there aren't any error messages - it's not obvious why
your laptop isn't automatically mounting it though, especially as your
other two sticks show up fine.

Let's see if you can mount it manually, just to check if everything is
ok. With the stick inserted, run:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb | tail -n2

And see what comes back. For me, with a similar USB drive plugged at
/dev/sde in I get:

ghost@failbot:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sde | tail -n2
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1              63    31117904    15558921   83  Linux

You'll probably see something very similar, although your details will
be different. The bit you're interested in is the first bit on the
bottom line, which tells you your full device path - for you it will
probably be /dev/sdb1. If your results are substantially different, just
post them here again.

Next, try manually mounting your stick. Presuming it did turn out to
just have one partition at /dev/sdb1, create a temporary random folder
in your home folder:

cd ~ && mkdir TEMP-FOLDER

And then try mounting the stick:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 TEMP-FOLDER

Browse to TEMP-FOLDER with Thunar to check the results. Issue "mount" at
the prompt to see more details, like filesystem type and whether it's
been mounted rw or not.

As always, ask if something goes weird...

Regards



On possibility is the drive is ntfs and the laptop doesnt have ntfs drivers installed/enabled???
Tom te tom te tom

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