It's odd, but one of my usb sticks stopped mounting automatically and in fact doesn't want to work at all.
dmesg gives: [ 724.103868] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] [ 724.103871] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Medium not present [ 724.103874] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 32 Other usb drives are working fine, and this stick still works fine on windows too. fdisk, mount, gparted all fail to see /dev/sdb There are 2 things I can think of that might have caused the error. The first is that I was running applications off the drive through wine. Specifically portableapps.com , maybe I didn't unmount it cleanly or something although I'm sure I shut down wine and did a normal unmount before removing it. Option 2 is somehow installing Virtualbox has screwed with it or the usb drive mounting rules. Any ideas where to even start, I would backup and reformat if I thought I could but without it mounting that doesn't exactly make that possible. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech