Dead USB drive?
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Hello,
I forgot to umount a usb stick before copying a .iso's content on
it (with dd).
When dd ended, the USB stick light was still flashing; I foolishly
removed the USB stick and then replugged it in some minutes after.
Now, the USB stick is clearly recognized as plugged, but nothing more;
the only thing I know when I plug it in, is that some positive entries
are created in /var/log/syslog, but fdisk -l shows no partition, gparted
shows nothing too, and nothing gives me an access to the drive (on which
I would like to use gparted to make a clean stick now). As a result,
assuming it should be on /dev/sdb1, I cannot do anything on /dev/sdb1.
Excerpt from syslog:
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Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.817517] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.950729] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=3100
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.950732] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.950735] usb 3-1: Product: USB DISK 2.0
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.950737] usb 3-1: Manufacturer:
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.950738] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 078A0DBE0192
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.950814] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.956336] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.956461] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.956538] usb-storage: device found at 2
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.956545] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.956556] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Dec 25 23:27:41 merciadriluca-station kernel: [ 1.956558] USB Mass Storage support registered.
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What can I do? Is it dead?
Thanks. All the best,
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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Fine feathers make fine birds.
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