Can't find where the usb stick is??

mustangfanatic01 · 03-15-2006, 03:24 AM

After reading around, most people's solved their problem by simply looking at the output of dmesg or fdisk -l. After inserting the flash drive the activity light comes on for about 8 seconds. After reading the entire dmesg I cannot find anything that looks like it would be the usb drive. Fdisk -l only lists my 3 hard drives and nothing else. I also tried restarting the Hotplug service. My usb mouse works fine. I'm running kernel 2.4.31 and this is a PNY flash drive. Any ideas? Thanks.

*edit* this just showed up at the end of dmesg.
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-7, assigned address 6
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-71)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-7, assigned address 7
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=7 (error=-71)

oneandoneis2 · 03-15-2006, 04:56 AM

Have you got the requisite kernel support enabled? SCSI, USB mass storage, etc?

salparadise · 03-15-2006, 05:02 AM

lsusb is the command to list the usb devices

You'll have to mount the device manually.
First make a mount point.

mkdir /mnt/usb

Then from the command line, something along these lines...

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Post back if this doesn't work.