USB Flash Drive not picked up when plugged in

[P38Lightning]

When I plug my 4gb San Disk Cruzer into my computer, PCLos won't mount it and wont even show that it exists, so that I could mount it manually.  What should I do?  I know that it is not the drive because it works fine in other OS's.  I am using KDE desktop.

[muungwana]

try to do the following

1. Unplug it if it is plugged
2. Open the terminal and log in as root
3. Run this command: service syslog restart
4. Run this command: echo "" > /var/log/syslog
5. Plug it in and wait for 5 seconds
6. Run this command: cat /var/log/syslog
7. Post the output of the above command

[T6]

is it working well?

try the command lsusb when you have it plugged it and post the results

are you using the latest kernel?

in pclinux control center/local disks/manage disk partitions, can you see it listed there

sometimes fat 16 or fat 32 partitions on this flash drives can end damaged and not be reported by pclinux, just happened to me with my cellphone and all i had to do was format it again there, in pcc

[P38Lightning]

Here is the output I get from doing the above mentioned steps:

Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5530
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: Manufacturer: SanDisk
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: scsi6 : usb-storage 2-4:1.0
Aug  8 16:20:59 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7

[muungwana]

Those output says the usb device is detected by the usb subsystem. It just cant find any partitions in it


whats the name of the other OS it works as expected?

You may need to re partition it but i dont think you can do it on pclinuxos since it cant see anything on the drive

[MGBguy]

Try KDE  Configure Your Desktop > Hardware> Removable Devices.

Just trying to be helpful.  

[Old-Polack]

Here is the output I get from doing the above mentioned steps:

Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5530
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: Manufacturer: SanDisk
Aug  8 16:20:58 localhost klogd: scsi6 : usb-storage 2-4:1.0
Aug  8 16:20:59 localhost klogd: usb 2-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7

With the device still plugged in, open a terminal, su to root, then enter;

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l                 <Enter>

Post your results.

[P38Lightning]

The other OS is windows xp.

Here are the results from the fdisk -l command:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders, total 312500000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xde254f5c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    40965749    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2        40965750   312496379   135765315    5  Extended
/dev/sda5        40965813    66155669    12594928+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6        66155733    74332754     4088511   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7        74332818   312496379   119081781   83  Linux