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MitchellSalad

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Registered: 2012-12-25

Posts: 14

Having trouble mounting Kindle (plugged in via USB)

When I plug in my kindle, here's the dmesg output:

[205116.161789] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[205116.182584] usb 1-1: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc
says 0 microframes

ls /dev

...
sda
sda1
...
// no sdb!!

lsusb

...
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1949:0004 Lab126, Inc. Amazon Kindle 3/4
...

df

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs          20642428  3001576  16592276  16% /
dev              1938968        0   1938968   0% /dev
run              1946840      500   1946340   1% /run
/dev/sda1       20642428  3001576  16592276  16% /
tmpfs            1946840     3116   1943724   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs            1946840        0   1946840   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs            1946840     1200   1945640   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5      274016940 12969244 247128448   5% /home
/dev/sda4       12385456  1703532  10052780  15% /var
/dev/sda2          99150    24965     69065  27% /boot
/dev/sda3         523248    20488    502760   4% /boot/efi

So, it's recognized as plugged in, but I can't mount it. Does anyone know what's going on? Thank you and Merry Christmas!

lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

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Re: Having trouble mounting Kindle (plugged in via USB)

Did you try MTP? :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP

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MitchellSalad

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Registered: 2012-12-25

Posts: 14

Re: Having trouble mounting Kindle (plugged in via USB)

Did you try MTP? :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP

Hrm, just tried it:

mitchell:~$ mtp-detect
Error: Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading.
libmtp version: 1.1.5

Listing raw device(s)
   No raw devices found.

chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

Re: Having trouble mounting Kindle (plugged in via USB)

I know this doesn't solve your problem but my kindle is found without any intervention

$ df
.....
/dev/sdc1             3161272   171624   2989648   6% /media/Kindle 

MitchellSalad

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Registered: 2012-12-25

Posts: 14

Re: Having trouble mounting Kindle (plugged in via USB)

I restarted my computer and it's now totally working. Sorry about that, all!