On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > since a few weeks I have a strange effect with my USB stick. > > According to fdisk there is one partition on it > /dev/sde1 38 7839719 3919841 b W95 FAT32 > > which I haven't changed for a long time. > > Whenever I insert this stick, the kernel log shows > /dev/sde but not /dev/sde1 (and there is no file /dev/sde1) > > After Invoking fdisk /dev/sde with a simple 'p' command but nothing > else, this device shows up. > > Has anybody an idea what's going on here?
I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything works fine after that. You can try it, maybe it'll work for you, too.
