usb stick, can't mount

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Could this be something that occurred in a very recent change? I 
recently (two weeks ago) purchased a Memorex 1 GB TravelDrive and 
transferred some files to it under WinXP, and had been using it on the 
same system (dual booting) with FC6 x86_64 at home. About a week ago, it 
suddenly stopped working properly in FC6; while watching with the 
Nautilus "Computer" window open, the drive gets mounted and unmounted 
immediately, but there are no error messages, nothing unusual in dmesg 
or /var/log/messages. Initially I waved it off as some crashed driver, 
but after multiple reboots over the last week, without any success in 
FC6 I began to suspect there was something wrong with the drive. 
However, it continues to work in WinXP AND it works on a FC5 x86 machine 
I have at work.

I'll try to get a copy of the dmesg output and anything related from 
/var/log/messages later on today.
Raymond
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just mounted, as a vfat filesystem, a 64meg usb key/stick, wrote one file
> to it on a debian/kubuntu 6.06 LTS system, unmounted it and and brought it in
> here and plugged it into the FC6 box, on a usb1.1 hub also, but I cannot mount it.
>
> usb_storage is loaded according to lsmod.  Here is the stanza from the log when I plug it in:
>
> May 10 13:24:42 coyote kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> May 10 13:24:47 coyote kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Staples                   0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> May 10 13:24:47 coyote kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
> May 10 13:29:03 coyote kernel: usb 2-2.1: USB disconnect, address 4
> May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: usb 2-2.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
> May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: usb 2-2.2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
> May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: usb 2-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> May 10 13:29:10 coyote kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Staples                   0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> May 10 13:29:10 coyote kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
>
> And of course sg4 is assumed to be the loader robot for the 5th robotic scsi
> tape drive the last I knew.
>
> Shouldn't it be available as /dev/sda1?  It always has been before, quite a few times.
>
> Kernel is 2.6.21.1-cfs-v10
>
>