Did you run dmesg. Could you paste the information you get in dmesg or syslog.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Hans gogia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you tried fdisk? >> >> http://www.dotkam.com/2008/07/10/restoreformat-usb-flash-drive/ >> > yes I tried with fdisk. but the device gets unavailable because its > mounting and unmounting repeatedly > >> On Jan 30, 2012 4:26 AM, "Alok Singh Mahor" <alokmahor@gmail. >> >>> Hi all, >>> I got a pendrive from friend that is periodically mounting and >>> unmounting itself. >>> when I plugin it into my laptop its auto mounting as all other pendrives >>> without any error. but after about 10 seconds it gets unmounted >>> automatically and then remounted again. >>> I am able to delete files without any error but after some time it gets >>> remounted again and showing all files as it is even deleted files. >>> I am unable to format as device gets unavailable >>> suggest me how can I make this pendrive usable? >>> >>> output of dmesg of my freshly booted laptop is here >>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/821961/ >>> output of dmesg after inserting pendrive is here >>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/821976/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Alok Singh Mahor >>> http://alokmahor.co.cc >>> Join the next generation of computing, Open Source and Linux/GNU!! >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: >>> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >>> >> -- >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: >> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >> > > > > -- > Alok Singh Mahor > http://alokmahor.co.cc > Join the next generation of computing, Open Source and Linux/GNU!! > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Supreet Sethi Ph IN: +919811143517 Ph Skype: d_j_i_n_n Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/supreet.sethi Twt: http://twitter.com/djinn -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
