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bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 11

usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

When I attach my flashdrive I do not get the usual sda1 device node, just an sda... What can I do? The drive works in Windows of course. Fdisk /dev/sda says "Unable to read /dev/sda", dmesg mentions the usb attach, but nothing about partitions of course...

Last edited by bakaohki (2007-03-04 14:11:52)

Alphalutra1

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Registered: 2006-09-16

Posts: 59

Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

Same thing is happening here
Also I get this message:

FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.19-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory

whenever I try to modprobe any type of module.

--EDIT
nevermind, it was a stupid reboot in order I guess because it works now,

Any ideas?

Alphalutra1

Last edited by Alphalutra1 (2007-02-18 21:04:14)

bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 11

Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

I get no error, checked it out... hell, if I had no Windows it would've been pretty hard to transfer my work to that drive - this whole udev/kernel business is just too annoying (not just with arch, but with all the other distros I tried).

EDIT: I rolled back udev, but it still does NOT work... I wonder what's wrong here - cd/dvd is fine, sda comes up (udevmonitor show stuff) but no sda1 no matter how hard I try - works with Ubuntu and Windows.

Last edited by bakaohki (2007-02-19 20:23:57)

bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

:(Anyone?
I thought I would just repartition the drive, but fdisk says

Unable to read /dev/sda

Edit: after some messing around with the system (mainly rolliong back and forth different packages) I came to the conclusion that this is a kernel problem (2.6.19 works fine, while 2.6.20 not) - while I could not rollback the nvidia driver to 2.6.19 at least I know what the problem is. But of course this will not fix it...

Last edited by bakaohki (2007-02-22 06:31:15)

bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

Posted a bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6478

hope this is how it goes

bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

I have also checked the lates 2.6.20 and the ck kernel as well, none of them seems to be working - am I the only one experiencing this problem? Anyone else?

bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

Okay, here's the deal: kernel 2.6.20 is more picky about hardware than 2.6.19. Period. The usb flashdisk was a particularly cheap one and had no vendor field at all - I'm not sure if this could've been the problem though; now I bought an expensive (read: not the cheapest) one which works.

Pick2

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From: Illinois

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 55

Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

Just a thought here , did the Flash Drive that did not work come with the "U3" password protection software on it ?
That has been a real pain for me with Linux , there is removal software available , if that is the case.
Links here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 64#p217364

hope this helps
Pick2

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bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Re: usb flashdrive stopped working after upgrade [SOLVED]

No no, it was a plain ultra cheap pendrive (which worked fine with 2.6.19 and Windows (tm))