corsair pendrive don't work anymore

[Sandy Harris]

Jaime Casanova <jcasanov at systemguards.com.ec> wrote:

I have a similar problem.

> I've installed ubuntu 8.04 64bits in an amd64 laptop.

Xubuntu 8.04 on an Intel Core 2 duo desktop here.

> My problem is that my pendrive (a corsair of 8gb)

2 gig Kingston here.

> doesn't work anymore in my ubuntu box.
> It worked when i buy it and i still can use it in windows (i have an xp box)...

I use Pen drives to take slide presentaions to classes. School's
computers run XP. Most have virus protection, but I'm not certan
all do.

> The first time i had problems with it was after using it in a vista
> box then after reading and writing from it in my xp box it start to
> wok again in ubuntu... that happens twice but now (i haven't used the
> pen in vista again) it doesn't work anymore in ubuntu no matter what i
> do...

Works fine for XP. It reported, and said it eliminated a virus
once. No longer auto-mounts when inserted in my machine.
fdisk -l does not show it.

My other USB key, an 8 gig Teclast which has been in the
same set of Windows boxes, works fine, so far.

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Sandy Harris,
Quanzhou, Fujian, China