On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:13:17 +0100 Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jant...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> On 11/15/18 9:56 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > why can't I mount a USB-Stick? > > I am running Stretch with XFCE. I added the 'plugdev' group to my > > id and I installed pmount. > > When inserting a USB stick I don't even see an icon on the desktop. > > > > What do I have to do to solve the problem? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Hello, > > thank you very much for the quick replies. > > I used 'lsblk' to find out that the stick was recognized (as 'sdd'). > Then I called 'sudo journalctl -e' and saw that the system has a > problem: Nov 17 08:57:27 PC4 kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching > mode page found Nov 17 08:57:27 PC4 kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] > Assuming drive cache: write through > > Maybe the reason for that is that I had previously written some data > with Windows (as I have done several times before). > No, I get that message in syslog all the time. It doesn't seem to be a problem. What can be a problem is that some USB sticks are preformatted to use the whole drive i.e. do not have a partition table. They *nearly* work, but do strange things sometimes. -- Joe
