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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB stick recognition problem
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:48:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimxTFh5crLMryh7Ne6OEQuFWWEahmzJGZWQ9eVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296467018.11903.2@numa-i>

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 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              38     7839719     3919841    b  W95 FAT32
>
> which I haven't changed for a long time.
>
> Whenever I insert this stick, the kernel log shows
> /dev/sde  but not /dev/sde1  (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?

I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then
the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything works fine
after that. You can try it, maybe it'll work for you, too.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31  9:43 [gentoo-user] USB stick recognition problem Helmut Jarausch
2011-02-01 13:44 ` Gregory SACRE
2011-02-02 15:48 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-02-02 21:29   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-02-02 22:37     ` Mick
2011-02-02 23:05     ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-03  2:11       ` walt
2011-02-03  6:08         ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-03  6:52           ` Alan McKinnon
2011-02-03  7:41             ` Dale
2011-02-03 15:47             ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-04 14:48   ` [gentoo-user] " Helmut Jarausch
2011-02-04 15:52     ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-04 22:25       ` Neil Bothwick

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