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belbo

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2011-02-25

Posts: 51

USB Stick mounts fine first time but subsequently doesn't

I copied some files onto my usb stick yesterday. Today I tried inserting the stick into my pc to delete the previous files and copy on some more. When I insert the stick its volume name appears on the left in Nautilus but it shows as not mounted.

Clicking on it, double-clicking on it and right-clicking on it and then selecting mount all do nothing.

The stick previously auto-mounted (when I copied the files onto it).

dmesg has the following -

[82523.095632] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 4
[82530.631785] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[82530.758508] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[82531.759552] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 120 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[82531.759847] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[82531.761273] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] 7831552 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.73 GiB)
[82531.762085] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[82531.762089] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[82531.762628] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] No Caching mode page present
[82531.762631] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[82531.765395] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] No Caching mode page present
[82531.765401] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[82532.697072]  sde: sde1
[82532.700011] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] No Caching mode page present
[82532.700017] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[82532.700021] sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk

lsusb gives -

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0951:1623 Kingston Technology

fdisk -l gives -

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1              63     7823654     3911796    b  W95 FAT32

If I try to unmount it (just out of interest given it isn't mounted) I get a message that it cannot be unmounted owing to "Daemon is inhibited".

I've done some googling but came up with nothing useful.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks

belbo

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Last edited by belbo (2011-09-22 13:44:27)

belbo

Member

From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2011-02-25

Posts: 51

Re: USB Stick mounts fine first time but subsequently doesn't

Update. I was able to mount the usb stick and then write and delete to it by double-clicking the desktop icon for the stick. Weird. Stilll no closer to understanding why it didn't mount previously.

It mounted as -

/media/4GB-DATATRA

Last edited by belbo (2011-09-22 14:17:44)