It never showed a size, so if there is anything connected to it that still works, then the controller no longer sees it or knows about it. The media removed is what you would see on a device you would plug a sd memory card into with no card connected.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:16 AM Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote: > > > On 12/21/21 23:33, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> > wrote: > >> I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. > >> > >> I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. > >> > >> I tried fdisk: > >> > >> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > >> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found > >> > >> > >> Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If > >> there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of > >> something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB > stick. > >> > >> thanks! > >> > > Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it? > > just reinserted it and checked out dmesg: > > [310838.123104] usb 5-2: new high-speed USB device number 32 using xhci_hcd > [310838.250288] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=ffff, > idProduct=1201, bcdDevice= 0.00 > [310838.250311] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, > SerialNumber=0 > [310838.255566] usb-storage 5-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected > [310838.258932] scsi host1: usb-storage 5-2:1.0 > [310839.294989] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access NAND USB2DISK > 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 > [310839.299399] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 > [310839.299732] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Media removed, stopped polling > [310839.301528] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk > > But: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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