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From: Gregory SACRE <gregory.sacre@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB stick recognition problem
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Hi Helmut,


It sounds like there is a problem with the partition table on your USB
stick. It might be the consequence of a hardware failure (read or more
probably write) at some point.
If, as you mention, once you do an fdisk then "p", you can use once
again your USB stick, then maybe save everything you have on it, then
create a new partition table using fdisk on that disk and format the
whole thing.


Hope that helps,

Greg

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since a few weeks I have a strange effect with my USB stick.
>
> According to fdisk there is one partition on it
> /dev/sde1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A038 =A0 =A0 7839719 =A0 =A0 3919841 =
=A0 =A0b =A0W95 FAT32
>
> which I haven't changed for a long time.
>
> Whenever I insert this stick, the kernel log shows
> /dev/sde =A0but not /dev/sde1 =A0(and there is no file /dev/sde1)
>
> After Invoking fdisk /dev/sde with a simple 'p' command but nothing
> else, this device shows up.
>
> Has anybody an idea what's going on here?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut.
>
>