so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day...

Sigh.  that was a good $8 down the drain.

On 12/22/21 15:39, Roger Heflin wrote:
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

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