usb memory stick

[Alex Marten]

A quick google of the problem and it seems that many others have had
this sort of problem under linux.  You can try to mount the stick via
the command line with:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 MOUNTPOINT

But this probably will not work if Ubuntu cannot mount it
automatically.  (Subsite in the directory to mount it to for
MOUNTPOINT)

It seems that a far amount of people have had luck solving the problem
by reformating the drive.  To do this:

sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1

Sorry I can not be of more help.



On 9/16/05, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sean Sieger <sean.sieger at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>    Alex Marten <alex.marten at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>       The first step would to run "dmesg" in a terminal after you just plug
>       it in and check to see if it is even being recognized by the system.
>       Maybe you could post that info.
> 
>       On 9/16/05, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger at gmail.com> wrote:
>       > When I plug my memory stick into my machine, it does
>       > not show up on my desktop. I don't know enough about
>       > drives to know where to start. I've tried apropos
>       > without luck. Can I reformat it? Or, make it new again? :)
> 
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:
> <3>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
>    Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
>     unable to read partition table
> 
> Is this my problem?
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