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Square

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

[SOLVED] Kindle no longer mounts

I just got a kindle and have been adding books just fine using pcmanfm. Just today, all of the sudden, the kindle will no longer work. The device appears in /dev for a brief moment, and then disappears. dmesg says thus:

[  642.496688] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[  642.655882] usb-storage 2-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  642.656564] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[  643.678970] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kindle   Internal Storage 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[  643.686351] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 2854912 512-byte logical blocks: (1.46 GB/1.36 GiB)
[  643.795983] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  643.795990] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
[  643.906099] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  644.127472]  sdb: sdb1
[  644.456098] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  644.943223] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[  647.457530] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 9
[  647.463012] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[  647.463093] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00

Of course, how am I supposed to check the device if I cannot access it? What can I do here? I'm at a loss. This is the only machine I have to plug it in to.

Last edited by Square (2017-01-13 17:43:00)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,541

Re: [SOLVED] Kindle no longer mounts

Reboot the Kindle. I've seen this before, that usually does the job.

Square

Member

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

Re: [SOLVED] Kindle no longer mounts

Thanks for the quick response Scimmia, but I already solved the problem. It was a bad usb cable.

On a whim, went and grabbed another cable to try it out and lo! It works just fine. >.<

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