USB Flash Disk, iPod do not mount on Fedora 9 machine

[Hushpuppy]

Hi,
I have a Fedora 9 machine that I am using 2 USB mice and a USB keyboard on. I plug in my iPod or my USB Flash Disk and neither of them mount. They were working one day, and suddenly, *poof*! No more.

Both devices work with my MacBook and with my PC Laptop. And, my USB keyboard and mouse continue to work just fine on this machine.

The USB Flash Disk is a Sandisk Cruzer with their funny little C3 software. I have not removed that from the drive, but I may have repartitioned it.

Anyway, any idea why it won't mount? Hal seems to think the drive is broken... but again, it works on other machines... here is the dmesg output from hal...


usb 1-5.4.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
usb 1-5.4.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 11
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 1-5.4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
usb 1-5.4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-5.4.1: Product: U3 Cruzer Micro
usb 1-5.4.1: Manufacturer: SanDisk
usb 1-5.4.1: SerialNumber: 43202011CCC03397
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer 8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
scsi 12:0:0:1: CD-ROM SanDisk Cruzer 8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] 15682559 512-byte hardware sectors (8029 MB)
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] 15682559 512-byte hardware sectors (8029 MB)
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x tray
sr 12:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
sr 12:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 196352
Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 49088
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 196356
Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 49089
sr 12:0:0:1: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
(...etc...)

[Hushpuppy]

Hi,
I did get a reply from a user, who asked me if I could mount the SanDisk device as /dev/sdb1. In truth, I cannot. I cannot mount it at all. I notice that if I plug the SanDisk into my buddy's computer here at work, it is mounted in /media as expected.
:-(
-the Pupp

[jturn_1]

I am having a similar problem with an external USB HDD (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1148202#post1148202), When I plug in the drive it is detected and then I get this Sense Key : No sense [Current], nonsense.

usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi21 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=4971, idProduct=3507
usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-3: Product: ATAPI-6 Bridge Controller
usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 9001C9F
usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[root@localhost /]# dmesg | tail -n 30
sd 21:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sd 21:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
sd 21:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sd 21:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: No additional sense information


But it works just fine with my jump drive.

If you get any more info or even better a soln. PLEASE let me know, thanks.

[jturn_1]

I was able to fix my problem, so hopefully my soln. will fix yours as well. Just go to the thread that I posted above. Good luck.

[Hushpuppy]

Hey, thanks for the reply. Actually, I fixed the problem as well... I upgraded to Fedora 10. :-\ I was having video card issues anyway (updating my kernel broke my video drivers).

Thanks though, I appreciate your efforts.