Re: USB stick broken?

[Klaus Pieper <kfpieper@web.de>]

> Look in log files for what system messages when you plugged in the memory. One of
> them may tell you what device ID the system assigned to the memory. On my machine

usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB Flash Disk    Rev: 7.78
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete


> Also, you can quickly check if memory is bad by plugging it into a friend's Mac
> or Windoze computer. If it work there, it will work in Debian, after some setup.

It's definitely not a linux/debian issue, since this stick did not work 
in Windoze and another one works on this system.