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rorique

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 16

[solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

So I bought a new usb stick yesterday. And can't use it. I tested on two different computers with Arch on them and have no success on either. So it's probably not caused by the (computer) hardware.

dmesg:

[  158.658222] usb 2-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[  160.638230] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  160.834797] usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  160.835558] scsi host7: usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:5800 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 058f:1234 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1bcf:2802 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:8187 Dell Computer Corp. DW375 Bluetooth Module
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

/dev/disk/by-id/ contains:

usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk-0:0 

Yet there is nothing usb sticky in lsblk -f:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  19.1G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0   9.6G  0 part /var
└─sda3   8:3    0 209.9G  0 part /home
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

I have no ideas left. And thus ask for your help.

Last edited by rorique (2015-03-22 12:08:48)

dice

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 413

Re: [solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

Maybe there is no filesystem and/or partition table on it.
The symlink in /dev/disk/by-id/ should point to the /dev/sdX file of the stick. Try formatting it.

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rorique

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 16

Re: [solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

Gparted does not show anything. I don't know how I can format something that is not shown in lsblk.

Fixxer

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-08-29

Posts: 217

Re: [solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

You should get something like this (Intenso Alu Line 16 GB):

[17104.624517] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[17104.756220] usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[17104.756471] scsi host11: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
[17105.758670] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Intenso  Alu Line         8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[17105.761116] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] 30924800 512-byte logical blocks: (15.8 GB/14.7 GiB)
[17105.762276] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[17105.762285] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[17105.764333] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[17105.770607]  sdb: sdb1
[17105.775073] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

[...]
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive
[...]

Eject flash drive, open terminal, log in as root, then:

dmesg -C

Plug in flash drive, and post:

dmesg

Last edited by Fixxer (2015-03-22 12:00:47)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 7,732

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Re: [solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

Can you "see" the USB stick if you load up a live version of a different distribution?

Maybe it is broken...

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rorique

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 16

Re: [solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

# dmesg

[ 6975.265245] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 6975.357528] usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 6975.357797] scsi host9: usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0
[ 6976.361680] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Intenso  Rainbow Line     8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 6976.363547] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 15257600 512-byte logical blocks: (7.81 GB/7.27 GiB)
[ 6976.364626] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 6976.364637] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 6976.365753] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 6976.372200]  sdb: sdb1
[ 6976.375985] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

It shows up now. I had to wait some time, first it just showed the first three lines. Still a bit strange, it does not work with sudo but when logged in as root it does. With the 4gb stick of the same company there is no problem using sudo. Thank you!

Fixxer

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-08-29

Posts: 217

Re: [solved] Intenso 8gb usb stick not recognised

--force-good