feisty laptop not recognising usb stick

[Peter Schwenke]

Hi Karl,

Karl Goetz wrote:
> hi all,
> I got given a feisty laptop which has stopped recognising usb sticks.
> 
> When i gave it to the person, usb worked fine. they say they unmounted a
> usb stick (or eject, whatever the feisty GUI says), waited a few seconds
> then pulled it out.
> Since then its not accepted new usb sticks, and the kernel doesnt seem
> to look.

So it's not appearing in /proc/partitions?

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                                                              ...Peter