It may also be a problem with your USB port and/or the memory stick. You can verify that the memory stick is being registered by opening a terminal and typing: sudo dmesg then, insert the memory stick and type: sudo dmesg you should see something like the following:
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered usb-storage: device found at .... this means your computer "sees" the usb device then you should see Attached SCSI generic sg3 type 0 this means your computer knows that the usb device is a disk and is trying to create the appropriate devices for it in /dev next you should see a few lines that all start with: [sdb] this means that you computer has "attached" your USB key at /dev/sdb followed by: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk this means that the drive is recognized and working properly. If you cannot mount it or it doesn't show up on your desktop, you should open "Disk Utility" under "System" >> "Administration" and re-format it. If you re-format, you will loose all of the data on the USB key so, be careful and ask the list for more help if you aren't sure what to do. Good luck, Seth On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Janosch Maier <[email protected]>wrote: > Usually it should be mounted automatically. > > But you can try: > sudo mkdir /media/memory-stick > sudo chown YOURUSERNAME /media/memory-stick > sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/memory-stick > > But change sdb1 by the correct device. If the drive is not fat32 > formatted exchange vfat with either ext3, ext4, ntfs, whatever you use. > With this you create a mount point, give the folder to yourself, so that > you have access later, and not only root can read and write there. > And mount it finally. > > To unmount later use: > sudo umount /media/memory-stick > > To see, if the device is recognized at all, you can use lsusb > > Regards Janosch > > Am 24.06.2010 12:08, schrieb Steen Andersen: > > Hi. > > > > How do I access a memory stick with Ubuntu?? > > When I insert my Cruzer stick, it does not show up in Ubuntu. > > > > Steen > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Janosch Maier <[email protected]> -- http://phynformatik.de > This E-Mais is signed via GnuPG <http://gnupg.org/>. My public key: > 0xEB21B1DE > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > >
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