Unable to mount a usb "stick" in ubuntu 8.04

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Try another known good USB device and see if it mounts. The data you
>> sent makes me think your USB device is bad.
>>     
>
> Well, I can see the card in the camera, so AFAICT it's good.
>
> And it's only maybe 2 years old so I can't see how it could have
> gotten that damaged.
>
> But I tried as you suggested, plugged in a small usb stick I've only
> recently used, and presto:
>
> 03546.572264] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> [603546.708037] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [603546.708416] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [603546.695963] usb-storage: device found at 5
> [603546.695968] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> [603551.692199] usb-storage: device scan complete
> [603551.692796] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access              USB DISK 2.0
>    PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> [603551.928098] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] 505856 512-byte hardware sectors (259 MB)
> [603551.928717] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
> [603551.928722] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
> [603551.928724] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [603551.931341] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] 505856 512-byte hardware sectors (259 MB)
> [603551.931963] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
> [603551.931968] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
> [603551.931970] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [603551.931975]  sdh: sdh1
> [603551.932915] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [603551.932955] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
> dfox at newbox:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdh1 /media/cdrom0
> [sudo] password for dfox:
> mount: special device /dev/sdh1 does not exist
> dfox at newbox:~$
>
> The device node does not get created.
>
> There's no /dev/sdh or even /dev/sdh1 present on my system.
>
> I tried to restart udev, but it hangs the terminal.
>
> Not only that, but amarok can't see my iriver t3 player.
>
> Time to reboot, I guees. Hate to do that, but this has happened before
> in Debian lenny - deamons that handle the hotplugging of devices
> mysteriously die and nothing usb-related will work without a reboot.
>
> I half expect that brendan guy to chime in and tell me to reinstall :).
>
>
>
>   
>> Karl
>>
>>
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>
>   
    Yes by all means reinstall! :-)

Well a reboot would be a thing to try. If that fails to correct the 
problem it looks like something in the depths of the automatic USB 
detection software and I do not go there. That and X-windows are too 
complex for this old guy.

Karl


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