USB Flash Drive

[Jesus Arocho]

On Sunday 29 November 2009 04:49:42 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/11/29 Jesus Arocho <jesus_arocho at comcast.net>:
> > I have an HP 8GB flash drive.  Kubuntu will detect the device, as per
> > dmesg, but fails to mount the same.  If I insert into a windows machine
> > and run eject and the return it to the Linux box, it will be recognized;
> > removing the device from the Linux box will result in the same drive to
> > fail to mount unless it makes another visit to Windows machine.  I did
> > try to unmount before removing the device.  Any ideas?
> 
> How are you unmounting the device in Linux? Try running the sync
> command before unmounted, and after unmounting before pulling it out.
> Does that help?
> 

Ran sync from konsole and then sudo unmount, removed the drive, replaced it, 
and it was not recognized.

dmesg = usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7; but 
nothing on lsusb.