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flash drive not working

Asked by Neil

Hi
I have a new 8gb flash drive but when it put it in the usb slot, nothings happens, the 1gb & 4gb work great but not the 8gb, can anyone please help me out, so I can use it, works ok in windows but not Ubuntu, and of course it my preferred OS. only open the windows when I have t,o otherwise it's closed lol.
Thanks
Neil

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Insert your 8gb flash drive then

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

dmesg

Please check fro error or warning messages you will get at the end of dmesg command.

Then be also sure your 8gb file system on the flash drive is with no error on it.

Thank you

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Carey Underwood (cwillu) said : 		#2

Possibly relevant: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/261710

In which case, running this in a terminal may fix the problem for a single reboot:

echo 6 > /sys/module/scsi_mod/parameters/inq_timeout

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