New and stoopid

[Brian Oney]

Hello Ubuntu,

I have been running xubuntu 9.04 for a few weeks now on a PPC Powerbook G4. The other day my flash drive dissappeared from my file system list and will not reappear. I have tried every single thing that I have found on the internet.

let me show you what:

# When I plug it in and then
rooster at roosters-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05dc:a781 Lexar Media, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05ac:8203 Apple, Inc. Bluetooth HCI
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

# then:
rooster at roosters-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @ 64        (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           114201172 @ 2018      ( 54.5G)  Linux native
/dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 3007050 @ 114203190 (  1.4G)  Linux swap

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

# why not....
rooster at roosters-laptop:~$ mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)

# so then
   [ 3883.727568] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 3883.869758] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3884.508476] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 3884.511205] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 3884.516220] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 3884.516230] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 3884.516481] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 3884.516485] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 3889.516758] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 3891.186643] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Lexar    JD FireFly       1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 3891.273925] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 3891.278262] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3891.289878] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

# further back up the last during initialization:
[    5.760701] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    5.760736] ehci_hcd 0001:10:1b.2: enabling device (0004 -> 0006)
[    5.760748] ehci_hcd 0001:10:1b.2: EHCI Host Controller
[    5.760845] ehci_hcd 0001:10:1b.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    5.784168] ehci_hcd 0001:10:1b.2: irq 63, io mem 0x80080000
[    5.796150] ehci_hcd 0001:10:1b.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00

# then this.....

rooster at roosters-laptop:~$ sudo rmmod ehci_hcd
[sudo] password for rooster: 
ERROR: Module ehci_hcd does not exist in /proc/modules

# then

rooster at roosters-laptop:~$ udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/sda1
device node not found

The problem is most likely self-induced. I am new and just went along blindly removing my flashdrive without mounting or unmounting it. This same USB drive used to show up on the desktop and in the file list. My Ipod shuffle will show up now but not this very important usb drive. I would really appreciate some help and please don´t tell me that I have to format it without recovering my data (life).

Thank you!
Brian

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