From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PkfE3-0007bc-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:06:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62ED7E0999 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A048E07FA for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so88918eyh.40 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:48:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=iH9yuzAIbClcGNMbtONlnnCjZMDoL+stIR+JOOyttuM=; b=HQ6B4OlolIl2ODt/Eo9dxcH/Qc5750KR1TegCAaVtunZjeYYSvXqIQHKoXGCP2T5+i yTopO+faHGuEyFXjuj9dSI0vCF60Ud4dbrUGNTxLuMUuRI9S8ZB93KgVGt6s6RY9+nTu l8tf9q1LBY+FV7ukFu0OaPWwjJXqWlaCb0V+o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ciHWf7tO8lOqNUDZ5FmFvEUaub3+kPoUrMrBwJJmugm6s2ZTqnWQc8/a5k5Ix88FrL f0wbjVekq83rkhXxTENAqau+IfDKHXmcqVZrd4J5oLW9inSRsMhH4loFmAAne2jL8fIZ U7YYGPVPwDhvU/2ZrIgKhfb4lHQzNFS/oTGFo= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.113.75 with SMTP id z11mr8363148bkp.90.1296661720616; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:48:40 -0800 (PST) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.18.197 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:48:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1296467018.11903.2@numa-i> References: <1296467018.11903.2@numa-i> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:48:40 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: T11KKLdOLPDJgsjnxHrJJqTbtgY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB stick recognition problem From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5104e774334d3cf2ea09624fa600ba54 On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch 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? 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.