usb flash drive

[sbogde]

Hello,

I have a small Asus eeePC that runs a modifid version of debian.

I cannot see the content of my usb flash drive.
when i put it into the usb nothing happens.
the mouse and other peripherals work just fine, could you please tell me what to do?

Thanks!

[MikeTbob]

Post the output of this command please

dmesg

You should only need to paste the last 50 lines or so.

[sbogde]

Thanks for your quick reply!
I have 3 usbs - all busy: one with the mouse, the other with a mobile i use for internet connection and the 3rd one with the flash drive


asus-561547352:/home/user> dmesg
000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 1200k, total 7872k
[ 8.314963] vesafb: mode is 640x480x16, linelength=1280, pages=12
[ 8.314968] vesafb: protected mode interface info at 00ff:44f0
[ 8.314971] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
[ 8.314976] vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
[ 8.324938] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[ 8.334664] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
[ 8.417108] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 8.417172] agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset.
[ 8.417385] agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
[ 8.436994] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
[ 8.437039] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 8.437068] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 8.437157] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[ 8.437761] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
[ 8.438078] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[ 8.438372] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[ 8.438377] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
[ 8.438515] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.10ac1
[ 8.438524] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
[ 8.439136] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 7
[ 8.439141] PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered
[ 8.439147] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
[ 8.439169] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[ 8.439231] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001ffa0 irq 14
[ 8.439263] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001ffa8 irq 15
[ 8.439286] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 8.608898] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x000101f7
[ 8.608930] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 8.788252] ata2.00: ATA-5: ASUS-PHISON SSD, TST2.04P, max UDMA/66
[ 8.788258] ata2.00: 31522176 sectors, multi 0: LBA
[ 8.808238] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
[ 8.808378] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ASUS-PHISON SSD TST2 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.808499] SCSI device sda: 31522176 512-byte hdwr sectors (16139 MB)
[ 8.808514] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 8.808518] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 8.808537] SCSI device sda: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8.808597] SCSI device sda: 31522176 512-byte hdwr sectors (16139 MB)
[ 8.808608] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 8.808612] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 8.808630] SCSI device sda: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8.808636] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
[ 8.810014] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 8.810188] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 8.844006] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 8.844013] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 8.844186] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 8.870442] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[ 8.882951] TCP cubic registered
[ 8.882974] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 8.882981] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 8.882988] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[ 8.883211] Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
[ 11.290462] elantech.c: unexpected magic knock result 0x02, 0x00, 0x30.
[ 11.290468] max_proto > PSMOUSE_IMEX
[ 12.026196] elantech_init(psmouse) == 0
[ 12.066038] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /class/input/input1
[ 21.125663] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 21.329534] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[ 21.329544] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 49555
[ 21.329845] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 49550
[ 21.329994] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 49542
[ 21.330004] EXT3-fs: sda2: 3 orphan inodes deleted
[ 21.330007] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
[ 22.280977] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 22.649381] Generic RTC Driver v1.07
[ 29.004083] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 29.004108] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[ 29.576238] jack present = 0 0
[ 29.746661] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
[ 29.994850] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[ 30.003625] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
[ 30.003636] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
[ 30.009722] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2
[ 30.009760] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 30.009913] input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input3
[ 30.009930] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 30.009990] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
[ 30.010014] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[ 30.010072] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[ 30.010094] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 30.022305] Asus EEEPC HOTKEY
[ 30.022696] [eeepc hotk] Hotkey init flags 0x43.
[ 30.024283] [eeepc hotk] Get control methods supported : 0x101711
[ 30.091431] fuse init (API version 7.
[ 30.111585] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 30.111617] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 30.111650] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 30.154215] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 30.154226] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 30.165684] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 30.212331] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 3
[ 30.212339] PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
[ 30.212346] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
[ 30.212364] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[ 30.212370] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 30.213079] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 30.213116] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 3, io base 0x0000e400
[ 30.213288] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 30.213328] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 30.213338] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 30.316010] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
[ 30.316028] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[ 30.316034] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 30.316064] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 30.316096] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 7, io base 0x0000e480
[ 30.316228] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 30.316272] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 30.316283] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 22.730000] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
[ 22.750000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[ 22.750000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[ 22.750000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 22.750000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 22.750000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000e800
[ 22.750000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 22.750000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 22.750000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 22.840000] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -94992611 ns)
[ 22.860000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 22.860000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
[ 22.860000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 22.860000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 22.860000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 5, io base 0x0000e880
[ 22.860000] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 22.860000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 22.860000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 22.920000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 23.080000] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 23.160000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
[ 23.160000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[ 23.160000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 23.160000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 23.160000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[ 23.160000] PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[ 23.160000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 3, io mem 0xf7eb7c00
[ 23.160000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 23.160000] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 23.170000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 23.240000] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 23.360000] Atheros(R) L2 Ethernet Network Driver - version 1.0.40.4
[ 23.360000] Copyright (c) 2007 Atheros Corporation.
[ 23.360000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[ 23.360000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[ 23.490000] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[ 23.670000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 23.750000] pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2660 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
[ 23.750000] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.0cie02
[ 23.750000] pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2662 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
[ 23.750000] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.1cie02
[ 23.750000] pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2664 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
[ 23.750000] Load service driver hpdriver on pcie device 0000:00:1c.2cie02
[ 23.750000] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 23.770000] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 23.770000] ath_hal: 0.9.17.1 (AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[ 23.770000] ath_dfs: Version 2.0.0
[ 23.770000] Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Atheros Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
[ 23.800000] wlan: 0.8.4.2 (Atheros/multi-bss)
[ 23.800000] ath_rate_atheros: no version for "ath_hal_getuptime" found: kernel tainted.
[ 23.800000] ath_rate_atheros: Version 2.0.1
[ 23.800000] Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
[ 23.810000] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (Atheros/multi-bss)
[ 24.270000] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 24.420000] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 24.420000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 24.420000] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[ 24.420000] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.25:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[ 24.700000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 24.860000] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 24.870000] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[ 25.150000] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 25.330000] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 25.350000] input: Microsoft Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0 as /class/input/input6
[ 25.350000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
[ 25.350000] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 26.970000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 26.970000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 26.970000] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 26.970000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 26.970000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 26.970000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 31.970000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 CardReader SD0 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 31.970000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[ 31.970000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 62.080000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 68.420000] PPP BSD Compression module registered
[ 68.450000] PPP Deflate Compression module registered
[ 479.890000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
[ 8872.150000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 8872.310000] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8872.310000] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[26847.750000] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[26867.380000] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[26867.620000] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[26867.640000] input: Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 as /class/input/input7
[26867.640000] input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
[38415.040000] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 3
[38417.910000] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
[38418.110000] usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[38418.110000] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[38418.110000] usb-storage: device found at 7
[38418.110000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[38423.110000] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic 6000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[38423.110000] SCSI device sdc: 3842048 512-byte hdwr sectors (1967 MB)
[38423.110000] sdc: Write Protect is off
[38423.110000] sdc: Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 08
[38423.110000] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[38423.110000] SCSI device sdc: 3842048 512-byte hdwr sectors (1967 MB)
[38423.110000] sdc: Write Protect is off
[38423.110000] sdc: Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 08
[38423.110000] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[38423.110000] sdc: sdc1
[38423.110000] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[38423.110000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[38638.940000] usb 5-3: USB disconnect, address 7
[38643.060000] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[38643.240000] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[38643.260000] input: Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 as /class/input/input8
[38643.260000] input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
[40292.720000] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 4
[40297.170000] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[40297.350000] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[40297.370000] input: Microsoft Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0 as /class/input/input9
[40297.370000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
[40581.310000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
[40587.390000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[40587.550000] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[40587.560000] cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[40654.060000] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
[40654.260000] usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[40654.260000] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[40654.260000] usb-storage: device found at 11
[40654.260000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[40659.270000] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic 6000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[40659.280000] SCSI device sdc: 3842048 512-byte hdwr sectors (1967 MB)
[40659.290000] sdc: Write Protect is off
[40659.290000] sdc: Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 08
[40659.290000] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[40659.300000] SCSI device sdc: 3842048 512-byte hdwr sectors (1967 MB)
[40659.310000] sdc: Write Protect is off
[40659.310000] sdc: Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 08
[40659.310000] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[40659.310000] sdc: sdc1
[40659.320000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[40659.370000] usb-storage: device scan complete
asus-561547352:/home/user>

[MikeTbob]

I should have included this earlier, also the output of these commands would be really useful too.

fdisk -l

mount

That's a lowercase L in the fdisk command, not a 1

I'm not sure if this last command will work on your system or not, you can try.

usb-devices

[sbogde]

asus-561547352:/media/stick> fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 16.1 GB, 16139354112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1962 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 300 2409718+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 301 1960 13333950 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1961 1961 8032+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 1962 1962 8032+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/sdc: 1967 MB, 1967128576 bytes
57 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1203 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3192 * 512 = 1634304 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

-----------------------------------------------------------

asus-561547352:/media/stick> mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (ro)
none on / type aufs (rw,xino=/.aufs.xino,br:/=rw:/=ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)


-----------------------------------------------------------

asus-561547352:/media/stick> usb-devices
bash: usb-devices: command not found

[sbogde]

also, i logged in as root, and created /media/stick

then: cd /media/stick/

but when i tried:
asus-561547352:/media/stick> mount /dev/sdc1

i got:

mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

what am i doing wrong?

thanks again!

[MikeTbob]

Ok, so I would try this.

Login as root first then try this command.

mount /dev/hdc /media/stick

The data should be in /media/stick. Paste any errors you get.

[sbogde]

mount /dev/hdc /media/stick did not work:
mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist

but it worked with:
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/stick

thank you very much!

[MikeTbob]

Glad you got it working, my bad on the command failure and good job to you for figuring it out.

[sbogde]

no problem, thank you very much for your time!