Thanks to Michael and Billy USB stick now works. Laptop had dropped
about half its modules for no apparent reason. Fsck on USB stick doesnt
look healthy either but I am unsure of what I shuld get here.
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On my desktop which can read and write to the USB memory stick
fsck gave this
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fsck.vfat -f sda
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
open sda:No such file or directory
at this time the following appeared in dmesg
[4305400.602000] NTFS driver 2.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[4305400.766000] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large
block numbers, no debug enabled
[4305400.766000] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[4305400.795000] JFS: nTxBlock = 7845, nTxLock = 62761
[4305433.619000] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
[4305433.619000] sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
[4305433.619000] sda : sense not available.
[4305433.620000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4305433.620000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[4305433.620000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4305433.625000] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
[4305433.625000] sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
[4305433.625000] sda : sense not available.
[4305433.627000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4305433.627000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[4305433.627000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4305433.627000] /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O error
on device sda, logical block 0
[4305433.627000] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
[4305433.627000] unable to read partition table
[4305433.637000] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
[4305433.637000] sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
[4305433.637000] sda : sense not available.
[4305433.639000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4305433.639000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[4305433.639000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4305433.644000] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
[4305433.644000] sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
[4305433.644000] sda : sense not available.
[4305433.645000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4305433.645000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[4305433.645000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4305433.645000] /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O error
on device sda, logical block 0
lsmod on the laptop showed about half the modules that the desktop had.
Vfat was missing, so I loaded that. Still didnt mount USB stick. Went to
back up data but it was unable to burn a CD.
Nothing important that was not backed up so
Re installed ubuntu from CD
all the modules are back in lsmod, USB stick works, cd burning works
I wonder why the modules dropped out?
Ken
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